Cicadas are not locusts
Cicadas are not locusts....
I think I am getting people confused. I know they aren’t.
Note a post on this thread that says in the State of New York they call the cicadas locusts or katsydids.
In Michigan we didn’t When I was a kid I used to marvel at the fact that the cicadas in dormant form were underground and our particular neighborhood had many loud thousands coming out when the year was right. And avoiding predators by alternating the cycles. Such an interesting point.
New Yorker said: “ Since most predators have a two-to-ten-year population cycle, the twelve-year cicadas would be a feast for any predator with a two-, three-, four-, or six-year cycle.”
But the cicadas are synchronized in 13 nd 17 year cycles to avoid this.