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To: BeauBo

I remember years ago, people called these 17 year locusts. Apparently cicada is the correct entomology terminology.

What a life. They gestate for 17 years, emerge to mate, and don’t live very long.


4 posted on 01/29/2021 12:19:28 PM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Dilbert San Diego
Brood X Millennials. After living in the basement for 17 years they emerge for a few weeks to scream, mate and die.
13 posted on 01/29/2021 12:22:50 PM PST by KarlInOhio (The greatest threat to world freedom is the Chinese Communist Party and Joe Biden is their puppet.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

I can’t figure that out, we get cicadas every year........


27 posted on 01/29/2021 12:30:17 PM PST by Hot Tabasco
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Yes, they were called 17-year locusts.

Then we corrected ourselves to 17-year cicadas.


55 posted on 01/29/2021 12:59:45 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs. I )
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