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Old 07-03-2009, 05:14 PM
 
Location: Rural New Mexico
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Just had to see if anybody can answer this one. We live in west-central NM at the 7,000 foot level. This time of year, around our juniper trees in the sandy soil, some critter makes perfectly round holes (about 1/2" diam.) which look like someone took a ski pole and repeatly stuck it into the ground. Some trees have as many as 50 holes within a small area. Insect? spider? other?
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Old 07-04-2009, 05:35 PM
 
Location: Østenfor sol og vestenfor måne
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my guess would be that they are cicada holes.


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Old 07-04-2009, 05:36 PM
 
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<sorry, doublepost>


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Old 07-04-2009, 05:38 PM
 
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my guess would be that they are cicada holes.

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That's possible. Someone told me, though, that the cicadas are on a 7 year cycle (?)
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Old 07-05-2009, 04:46 PM
 
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In any given year there are cicadas coming out, but the peak with the highest number of hatchings is on a seven year cycle. I can hear cicadas right now from where I am sitting.

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Old 07-06-2009, 10:25 AM
 
Location: Albuquerque
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In any given year there are cicadas coming out, ... on a seven year cycle.
seventeen-year (cycle).
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Old 07-06-2009, 12:39 PM
 
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17 years? That has to be some hibernation. What do they dream about?


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Old 07-06-2009, 12:56 PM
 
Location: Canada
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Leaves.
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Old 07-06-2009, 05:19 PM
 
Location: Sandia Park, NM
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Speaking of hibernating, we have a bumper crop of toads singing nightly over here in Sandia Park. Do they hibernate until there's enough rain, or something? Because we sure don't hear them every summer, just the rainy ones, it seems.
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Old 07-07-2009, 01:54 PM
 
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I saw a toad and a bullfrog at the duckpond at UNM the other night. I bet they eat cicadas.


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