Cicadas

[20x]

I've been collecting the larvae off trees at night in full larvae form and when they crack open from their old shell. The ones I've collected just as they break open don't keep growing and the ones I've collected that are in early morph stage all die by the morning.
Is there a way to minipulate the overnight morph?

 

[20x]

Ps...what I mean is, an environment that they can grow from grub to cicada and keep them alive?

 

[Deepseeker]

Can't you just leave the poor *******s alone? :lol:

 

[Rockhunter62]

What's the go, are you breeding them for lizard food?

Cheers

Doug

 

[UnderEmployedGeo]

Definitely chalking this up as one of if not the weirdest question topic I've seen on any forum, let alone a prospecting one! ahahaha :lol:

 

[goody2shoes]

Take all sorts to make the world go round :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[Deepseeker]

I suppose if you can make a little noose and get one out in the river with a float and a hook tied close, you might land a good Cod. I'd be trying to figure out how to breed them too if that was the case!

 

[jethro]

Dont Cicadas spend the first part of their lifecycle as a beetle underground and take about 7 yrs to pupate and emerge and crawl up the tree trunk and shed their beetley bits and fly away.

 

[Adrian ss]

Maybe just stop stuffing around with them aye!? Or learn a bit about them first.
I am sure they would be a lot happier and live longer.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/24/us/17-year-cicadas-virginia.html

 

[Upside]

When you say crack open from their old shell, are you saying they regrow another ? I didn't think insects did that.

 

[silver]

They got no wings for love on the first shell :brokenh:

What arnt you telling us though 20

What do they taste like.... and is there a good enough longer term marketability for canned cicada soup

 

[grubstake]

Mmmm... creamy cicada broth!

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[silver]

Now that gave me a good belly laugh grubstake :lol:

 

[20x]

Dont Cicadas spend the first part of their lifecycle as a beetle underground and take about 7 yrs to pupate and emerge and crawl up the tree trunk and shed their beetley bits and fly away.

Exactly, they emerge this time of year.
Live surface cod bait is the idea.

 

[20x]

Collected at night as they emerge but all died by the morning and before they harden

 

[20x]

Maybe just stop stuffing around with them aye!? Or learn a bit about them first.
I am sure they would be a lot happier and live longer.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/24/us/17-year-cicadas-virginia.html

Is it ok if I use a live march fly or are ya ganna have sook mate lol
Ps. I Google the anatomy of many things!

 

[Tathradj]

Used to collect them at night near the base of a tree.
Then take them home and put them on the cutain to climb up.

Was a good thing untill the damn things started up early one morning.

They have to climb up some thing to emerge properly.

And yes, The best bait for fresh water fish are the small black ones.
Used to freeze them for this purpose.

 

[Katabatic]

"If a cicada molts and its wings are not able to hang downward they wont inflate with fluids and form properly"

Might be your problem.

https://www.cicadamania.com/cicadas/why-do-some-cicadas-have-shriveled-up-or-damaged-wings/

If you're after really big cod, I would suggest using one of these

 

[20x]

With a conservative approach I collect 2 cicada' s last night and attached them to the inner fly window of my tent.
When I woke I couldn't find them, my dog obviously ate them so I still failed.
A species of fly I've never seen before..

 

[Manpa]

Attaching them with a four inch nail didnt help.