I really enjoyed this story from the News and Record on our insect friends, the cicadas.  Their singing is one of the great pleasures of my summer evenings.
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Most North American cicadas produce rhythmical ticks, buzzes, or whines, though the “song” of some species is musical. The species are easily distinguishable by song, behaviour, and appearance.
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During a 1987 appearance of cicadas in the Washington, D.C., area, the United States Agricultural Research Service was plagued by telephone calls from distraught people who wanted to know why their lawns suddenly had holes.
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During a mass emergence of periodical cicadas, almost any animal, from raccoons to raptors, will prey on them. But with the cicadas' appearance only once every thirteen or seventeen years in different parts of the country, predators are unable to predict just when or where they will next turn up.
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Although they have a unique appearance-adult cicadas are one and one-half to two inches long and black with orange or orange-brown body stripes and red eyes and legs-the periodical cicada is best known for its incessant high-pitched droning, a sound many find annoying or even unbearable.
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Cicadas making appearance on Staten Island four years early. By Glenn Nyback. June 04, 2009, 11:16AM. Associated PressCicadas are beginning to show up in ...
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• Cicadas are often called locusts, but locusts are migratory grasshoppers that often travel in vast swarms. The appearance of cicadas in large numbers apparently caused the early European settlers in North America to equate them with the plague of locusts mentioned in the Bible.
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• Cicadas are often called locusts, but locusts are migratory grasshoppers that often travel in vast swarms. The appearance of cicadas in large numbers apparently caused the early European settlers in North America to equate them with the plague of locusts mentioned in the Bible.
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