U-M expert: Protect young trees, get ready for ‘continuous droning’ as Brood X cicadas emerge
Meredith Bruckner, Community News Producer, All About Ann Arbor
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RESON, VA - MAY 16: Adult cicadas dry their wings on leaves May 16, 2004 in Reston, Virginia. After 17-years living below ground, billions of cicadas belonging to Brood X are beginning to emerge across much of the eastern United States. The cicadas shed their larval skin, spread their wings, and fly out to mate, making a tremendous noise in the process. (Photo by Richard Ellis/Getty Images) (2004 Getty Images)
ANN ARBOR – Brood X periodical cicadas are about to emerge for the first time in nearly two decades in areas of Southeast Michigan.
Abby, my youngest granddaughter, might be in for a treat over the next several months.
All my granddaughters love books, and she is no exception. One of her favorite books is one about crickets, where Grandma or Grandpa help her push the plastic cricket in the book and it makes a clicking noise. Over the years, all the granddaughters have enjoyed the clicking sound that the cricket makes, and the book always has brought smiles to each of the girls.
A controlled click in a book is one thing. This summer, I’m not so sure Abby will relish the non-stop clicking noise outside her bedroom window from the cicadas, which are making their cyclical visit to Michigan.
Michigan Stadium vaccines open to all; graduation weekend in A2; Peony Garden a go!
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Happy Friday!
Good news for peony enthusiasts: The Peony Garden at Nichols Arboretum will reopen to the public next month. The famed garden, which features thousands of blooms, was closed to visitors last year due to the pandemic.
“Even so, every visitor to the peony garden will be expected to mask up and follow the well-known distancing guidelines,” Matthaei-Nichols director Tony Kolenic wrote in a newsletter last Friday. He also said that visitors may be limited depending on crowd guidelines issued by the University of Michigan.
Ann Arbor’s Shakespeare in the Arb canceled for second year due to COVID concerns
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“This was a very difficult decision,” wrote Matthaei-Nichols director Tony Kolenic in a newsletter on Friday. “Those special anniversary-celebration performances will have to wait until 2022. We just couldn’t risk having 200-plus audience members so close together at each performance for up to three hours at a time.”
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Shakespeare in the Arb actors do not use a stage. Instead, they perform for audiences in various natural settings across the picturesque 120-acre arboretum. Think: theater-meets-walking-tour.
Commonly dubbed the “least interesting place to sit in the entire Nichols Arboretum,” the Eleanor R. Jenkins memorial bench has been plunged into local celebrity after being the site where sophomore Rebecca Bright and senior Matt Olsen explosively ended their year-long relationship.
The bench, lo