[Woodcarver] CHAT! No Black Walnuts?

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OK, I have a question to throw out to anyone along the East Coast or
Central US ...

I'm out walking this morning and because of our talk about softwoods vs.
hardwood, and that our leaves are changing colors, I was paying more
than normal attention to the trees in our yard.  Now I noticed something
very unusual ... We have a wide variety of trees which includes two
English Walnuts, several Black Walnuts, and two Chinese Chestnuts, all
well matured and nut baring.  Only there are no nuts.  Having noticed
this oddity I did a little closer inspection.   There is not one black
walnut nut, not one English walnut nut, and zero chestnuts on the ground
or still on the tree!

This has never happened before. We have had years where the nut crops
were very small but never where there wasn't even one nut on the ground.
I should note here that we have lived on this piece of land for about 30
years, so I know that this is a Once in 30 years occurrence. It was not
an unusually wet or dry year, we don't have any blights that I know of,
we didn't even have an unusually large amount of caterpillars that could
have damaged every nut bearing tree. Having raked my little brain I can
come up with only one idea.  Could this be a result of the 17 year
cicadas????

Any ideas would be appreciated because this really has me baffled.  Has
anyone else noticed this or am I hallucinating?

Thanks, Susan

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