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seventeen-year locust
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seventeen-year locust: see cicada cicada (sĭkā`də), large, noise-producing insect of the order Homoptera, with a stout body, a wide, blunt head, protruding eyes,
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There was a minor emergence of periodical cicadas this year in the area.
Often confused with locusts, these periodical cicadas are large insects that emerge after spending 17 years underground.
So, why were two graduate students recently able to identify important components in the mating calls of periodical cicada that no one had ever described?
 
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