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Although commonly called 17 year locusts, or 13 year locusts, cicada are not locusts. Instead of having mouthparts for biting and chewing like a locust, Cicadas are by far the largest members of a great family of insects which have mouth parts for sucking the juices of plants. Cicadas are more closely related to insects such as the spittle bugs, leaf hoppers, scale insects, and the aphids or plant lice.

Insect Invasion

2004 is the year of the cicada in Indiana. Noisy emergences are also expected in Maryland in 2004, and Missouri (Search for Missouri). Nationwide, only 6 or so states each year experience the emergence of these insects.

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Cicada Facts

• In the north, periodical cicadas emerge once every 17 years
• In the south, periodical cicadas emerge once every 13 years
• It is believed that the mass emergence, and synchronized buzzing in trees, are a predator deterrance.
• Some cicadas appear every year during the long summer days of July and August, and are known as "dog-day", or annual cicadas

Common Questions Asked About Cicadas

How To Eat Cicadas (Search)

• Cicada Recipe (Search)

• Schoolkids go Silly over Cicadas

Summer 2004:

• After 17 Years, the Cicadas Are Coming

Other sources for information:

• [How To Prevent Tree Damage By Cicadas]
• Pesticide Risk of Eating Cicadas
• http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/2000/2137.html

• Everything Insects:Cicadas... There are different ways to cook cicadas, many of which are outlined in "Cicada-Licious: Cooking and Enjoying Periodical Cicadas," a book written by University ... http://www.siql.com/animals/insects/cicadas.htm

• April 2004 Cicada Searches
• Cook Inlet Council On Alcohol And Drug Abuse
• [Cicadas take menus by storm]

• [Massachusetts Cicadas]

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