My turtles are having a feast on cicadas. Is there any problem with this?
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Feeding Cicadas
pinky
May 17, 2004 01:41 PM
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chris_mcmartin
May 18, 2004 07:45 PM
>>My turtles are having a feast on cicadas. Is there any problem with this?
Is that if you're feeding the 17-year cicadas, your turtles have a long wait till their next feast!
I feed the annual kind to my box turtles and they love them.
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Chris McMartin
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I'm Not a Herpetologist, but I Play One on the Internet
LisaOKC
May 19, 2004 02:22 PM
Uh..is there any difference between the 17 year and the annual cidcadas?
They haven't hatched in OK yet, but cicadas are a regular summer food source for my herd. Right now I'm out looking for june bugs every night.
chris_mcmartin
May 19, 2004 08:48 PM
>>Uh..is there any difference between the 17 year and the annual cidcadas?
Yeah--they're different species, and the annual cicadas can be found every year. I leave it as an exercise for the reader to figure out the frequency of appearance of 17-year cicadas. 
>>They haven't hatched in OK yet, but cicadas are a regular summer food source for my herd. Right now I'm out looking for june bugs every night.
I haven't seen too many June bugs yet in South TX--they're out, but not in force. I can't remember the species names of the cicadas in our neck of the woods (I'm originally from OKC), but you have the green ones, and the larger brown/black mottled ones (which can be attracted by the sound of a lawn mower).
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Chris McMartin
www.mcmartinville.com
I'm Not a Herpetologist, but I Play One on the Internet
