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Indiana and adjacent areas and eastern Tennessee. A dwarf variety will emerge at the same time.
Indians regarded the mysterious appearance of the cicadas with awe as did early European settlers. When the Pilgrims at Plymouth Colony first heard the cicadas keening ^n 1634, they mistook them for crop?devouring locusts and feared a plague such as ravaged Pharaoh’s Egypt in Bibical times. Thus the popular misnomer “locust” originated, though cicadas are in no way related to those hungryjawed grasshoppers.
Seventeen year cicadas wear a dark “W” marked on each wing. Early settlers, noting that several conflicts closely followed cicada visits, regarded the insect as an omen of war. The creatures have no sting, but another superstition arose that they would sting babies to death. WOUND TREES The only serious harm done by
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