Is there something about the cicada crop that was bad this year?>>> The article mentions cicadas being a possible source. So i’ll feed my birds so they don’t have to eat the infected cicadas. We also had a huge infestation of the “Chinese Lantern Fly” last year in which i proceeded to murder a few million. Not too bad this year. Maybe they carry a disease as well. Birds do not eat them but they do pick them up before dropping them.
You didn’t fully digest my post.
The birds were not eating from my feeder when the cicadas were out. I feared they didn’t like it anymore, but now they are back.
You can put a feeder in front of the birds, but you can’t make them eat.