The Aftermath.............

of the Cicada emergence. A few pictures of what my trees look like. :(

The damage to the limbs.

But apple trees are resilient and I see new growth at the end of many broken branches.

My grafts that I top worked on to trees this spring came through in good shape perhaps because I kept them liberally dusted with Sevin.

Ron Joyner of Big Horse Creek Farm said it best:
Apple orchards are very dynamic entities, change is constant. Trees die and are replaced. Fruit production is up one year and nonexistent the next. It's a continual flow of life and death, celebration and disappointment.

That is pretty bad damage!
You're right, they'll come back fine given time.

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Wow, I hate to see it happen to you, but hoping for a quick recovery of your trees.

Sorry to see that.

The Fall Webworms are pretty aggressive here this year. A guy can spot them early by looking for what looks from a distance like a fireblight strike. Unfortunately, I didn't start to watch for them until they had already fully enveloped a 7' apple tree with their netting and all the leaves inside had turned brown. Now I am carrying a nipper in my pocket, cutting off any newly started nests, carrying them away, and burning them.

That stinks!

Ouch! Sorry for your losses.

Can you spread sevin on the ground

buckdeer1 said:

Can you spread sevin on the ground

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I believe in a orchard with the enormous amount of them hatching spreading sevin would have little affect since they can fly in from other areas. :( I did dust my nursery nearly every day with sevin and had little damage. Perhaps the extremely new growth was not to their liking? If you have just a few small trees close home and have the tiem you may be able to minimize the damage with sevin and hand picking them off the trees.