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THURSDAY. APRIL 22. 2021 PICKENS COUNTY PROGRESS PAGE 9A
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Jasper Farmers Market report
By Heather Giambra
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For more information on
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tive map of U.S. broods. Find
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for the University of Georgia
College of Agricultural and
Environmental Sciences.]
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Tips to help you prepare for a storm
During the peak of storm season, our greatest concern is for the safety of everyone
who will be affected by a storm. State Farm encourages all residents in the pro
jected path of any storm to protect themselves and their property. State Farm sug
gests the following preparation tips.
Before:
• Safe Room! If you’re at home, pick a place in the home where family members
can gather. One basic rule is AVOID WINDOWS. The safest spot in the home is
the interior part of a basement. If there is no basement, go to an inside room, without
windows, on the lowest floor. This could be a center hallway, bathroom, or closet.
• Create a home inventory: Make a list of your possessions and their estimated
value
After:
• If you have damage, contact your insurance agent/company immediately. State
Farm customers can call 1-800-SF-CLAIM, their agent or report their claim online
at www.statefarm.com
• Stay away from downed power lines.
Clean-Up:
• Examine the area for hazards, including electrical lines, and gas leak smells.
• Document everything - To assist with the insurance claim process, be sure to doc
ument items you throw out. Save your receipts, photograph the items and by making
a room-by-room inventory of missing or damaged goods. Include manufacturers’
names, dates and places of purchase and prices, if possible.
• Do not throw out any expensive items, such as large televisions and furniture,
until authorized by your claim representative
• Find a qualified license contractor - be careful of home restoration scams.
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A robin was challenging
it’s reflection while the other
birds were singing. Leaves
emerging in a light breeze
while happy voices of a very
full market filled the air. We
reached a new record number
of vendors this week and
glad we are to have them.
The popcorn man, Lynn’s
Creations, and Camille Mor
gan’s plants led the entrances
to the market. Kettle com
can’t be beat, Lynn makes all
things for the birds, and
many Spring gardening proj
ects are in full swing. Happy
customers were tasting all the
goodies offered for planning
their plantings.
Burnt Mountain Pie Com
pany offered up their special
ties. They will be opening
their business soon at 295 N.
Main St, Suite K. If you don’t
make it to the market to get
the goods, you’ll soon be
able to get them at their new
place! Other bakers like Tony
Pisconeri and Antonia Guerra
were selling their delicious
choices as well.
New vendor, Kelli Tribble
was set up next to her dad,
Gene Ray. He has wood
turned bowls and she had
birdhouses and fun signs.
Crafts & Creations had their
Gnomes, jewelry, and more
gathering many interested
buyers. Mea Family Made
Products offer soap and bath
bombs to help us all smell
much better.
Refer a friend or family member and get $75 when they purchase a new system.
Vendors Red Bean Harvest and Sugar Valley Kettle Corn offered coffee and snacks.
Brood X is coming
Billions of periodical cicadas and
their songs set to fill the
Arthropods.
To ensure proper credit
and record keeping, informa
tion such as location and time
are especially helpful. Insects
can be captured, sun-dried
and shipped to the museum
in a small, sturdy box or pho
tographs can be emailed to
insects@uga.edu.
The small window re
searchers and historians have
to study the brood makes
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Across from Walmart
Sunny Side Farms were
there with meats for the
freezer. They offer beef,
chicken, lamb and goat, plus,
jams and jellies. Possum Trot
Farms has every cut of beef
possible to make dinner
great. Cotton Candy was
being offered by vendor
Donna Hayhome’s daughter
Azlynn, and it was all out
Girl Power making this de
lightful, delicious treat.
And to top it all off, the
most unique offering, by
Steve & Becky Alexander of
Smoky Mountain Produce,
was ‘Diabetic’Jalapeno Pep
per Jelly, made with stevia.
Becky says she has tried
other sugar substitute options
with negative results, but this
version is great.
The Jasper Farmers Mar
ket is sponsored by the Pick
ens County Master
Gardeners and is located at
Lee Newton Park in the Park
n Ride parking lot every Sat
urday morning from 7:30 am
until noon. Don’t forget the
Master Gardeners will be
having their ‘Hometown,
Home Grown Plant Sale’
Mother’s Day weekend the
same time as the Farmers
Market. They will be at the
end of the Veteran’s Memo
rial parking lot across from
the market.
Cotton candy by Azlynn
“The only time they are
above ground is for about six
weeks,” said Hinkle. “They
don’t feed as adults, so they
are only using the energy that
they stored when they were
underground.”
While burrowing up from
the soil, cicadas bring large
concentrations of nutrients
back to the surface, aiding
plant growth and becoming
food for various animal pop
ulations.
At first, the pale-colored
cicada population arrives
without wings before shed
ding thin exoskeletons that
can be found latched onto
trees and scattered through
out yards.
One of the most recogniz
able features of living cicadas
is their dazzling red eyes.
“Annual cicadas are the
ones that come out every year
and the ones we see around
here are greenish in color,”
said Joseph McHugh, a pro
fessor of entomology and cu
rator at the Georgia Museum
of Natural History at UGA.
“But the periodical cicadas
are black cicadas with red
eyes that have these very
long life spans, and they are
out of sight for most of their
lives.”
Following the six-week
period, all of the Brood X ci
cadas will have lived out
their lifespan and set the next
cycle in motion with the dis
persion of eggs in tree
branches. Shortly after, new
nymphs will hatch, fall to the
ground and burrow under the
soil.
A piece of history
When the Brood X ci
cadas emerge, researchers
and collectors at UGA’s
Georgia Museum of Natural
History plan to expand their
collection of over 2.2 million
arthropod specimens.
Members of the public are
encouraged to share their
captures with the museum for
documentation and proper
identification, creating a his
toric record of involvement
in the UGA Collection of
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the same time.”
However, most Georgians
will have to travel north
experience the phe
nomenon.
“Tracking them down is
going to be very challenging
(for Georgians),” said Hin
kle. “We are estimating that
they are only going to emerge
in about 10 counties and in
the very northeastern part of
the state. Even then, there
may only be a few spots
where they can really be no
ticed.”
Safe and ‘sound’
Although they arrive in
large numbers throughout a
short six-week span begin
ning in May, cicadas are
harmless to humans and pets.
In fact, one of the only dan
gers of encountering the
species is overconsumption
by animals.
“They don’t bite, they
don’t sting and they’re not
poisonous,” said Hinkle.
“Even kids can catch and
handle the clumsy flyers.”
With warmer weather and
more sunlight during the day,
families in search of Brood X
have a chance to get out in
the woods and experience
this unique opportunity to
gether — if they can stand
the brood's loud noise.
Most of the seemingly
endless vibrations and
buzzing that fills the air
comes from males serenad
ing their potential mates with
an echoing chorus that must
be louder than their competi
tion. The females then echo
back with clicking sounds
generated from their wings.
Fortunately, most of these
exchanges only take place
during the day — making
them less of a nuisance dur
ing more quiet hours.
Restarting the cycle
Cicadas live in under
ground burrows for 16-and-
a-half years before emerging
to breed, lay eggs and then
die.
By Sean Montgomery
CAES News
It has been 17 years since
a set of billions of periodical
cicadas emerged from their
underground chambers and
filled the air with boisterous
buzzing and desperate mat
ing calls.
Brood X (pronounced
ten), the largest emergence of
the dozen periodical broods,
makes its highly anticipated
return just in time to shake up
the spring in various regions
spanning from northern
Georgia all the way to Penn
sylvania.
“The average person only
gets about four or five oppor
tunities during their entire
lifetime to experience Brood
X,” said Nancy Hinkle, ci
cada enthusiast and professor
of veterinary entomology at
the University of Georgia
College of Agricultural and
Environmental Sciences. “It
is just amazing that you have
this large number of the same
species of insect emerging at
After
living
under
ground
for the past
17 years, the black cicadas,
with their bright red eyes
will emerge this year for just
a short time, and in only a
few spots in the northeastern
part of the state. Pickens
may get lucky.