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Question: Why do periodical cicadas emerge only every 13 or 17 years?

Answer:

When cicadas come out of the ground at the same time, this is known as a mass emergence. Experts beleive that these mass emergences in odd-numbered years are apparently a means to avoid being eaten by predators such as birds, thus assuring survival of the cicada species. Since it is more than a decade between emergences, it is difficult for predators to track when the insects will be available. Predators have nothing to eat for several years, and then all of a sudden an enormous number of large insects emerge; there are too many for the local birds to eat.

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