Duchesne Courier | 1929-07-05 | Page 5 | Destructive Locusts

Dattructiva Locuit The cicada or harvest fly Is not a locust at all, the true locust being a grasshopper. The periodical cicada or 17-year locust is a large insect about an Inch and a half long with wide blunt head and with prominent eyes on the outer angles. It Is black, banded and marked with some orange on the abdomen, and It has six reddish red-dish legs. It has four shiny transparent transpar-ent wings with network of orange-colored orange-colored veins. Its life cycle la -bout 17 years, most of which la spent as a larva or pupa underground. The locust lo-cust has "long hind legs with thickened thick-ened thighs and narrow leathery wing covers. ..-.-jf.