Show CIC CICADAS S DJ Velma Volma Dili Grade Pupil Lapoint Lapoin t locust Perhaps Perhaps Per Por- Have Havo you OU ever eyer seen a haps haIls you ou h have Ye heard tho the low 10 dull hum bunt of or their wings as they stand In ml mid air air the the summer lime timo In the summer o of I 1919 1 a certain I variety of oC locust w was s' s Yer very i plentiful in the tho mid w western mid stern states These locust lived their season and amI woke the air with the vibrations of or their wings but hul now the they arc C silent No Not until 1936 will there bo ho any a r visible evidence that they thor ever evor existed What ll happened to them Rem Where are they now now How cap can wo we predict that they will appear in JG hC Those These questions are ire so RO interesting that I am going to tell you yon more or of the life lire history of the strange v l cicada The Tho cicada nymph or immature st stage jo remain In the ground r f feud feuding ing on the Ule hue roots of or tree for seventeen seventeen seven seven- SC teen years cars Every sc c seventeen 11 teen yeal's S generally In the tho month of or May rn tho the nymph crawl out Hi of or the ground climb trees or 01 fences and molt into adult cicadas The Tho females lay their eggs in the shoots of trees reps causing the flue shoot to die The young cicada after hatching go into Inlo tho the ground ro in larva lana stage anti and h begin in their tong period In s seventeen years ars front from that tine lime the they emerge mo molt l into inlo and amI tho thin females l lay hay y their Cg eggs o. o They will appear in the summer if I r because I l hoy oj Y w f it at t soch sochi i I the summer ro t i- i j x 1 t j c i. i 1 L J i |