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• n  North American cicada; appears in great numbers at infrequent intervals because the nymphs take 13 to 17 years to mature

• seventeen-year locust
• periodical cicada
• Magicicada septendecim

News & Articles

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• Nick Paumgarten: David Rothenberg’s cicada music.
  Yes, the cicadas are here, or somewhere, anyway. This would be Brood II of the periodical seventeen-year cicada Magicicada septendecim, last seen on the Mid-Atlantic Coast in 1996. It’s tempting to say that the din of anticipatory/celebratory/cicadapocalyptic news coverage has been as noisy as . . .
  June 17, 2013 - The New Yorker