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Yelling Flies
Announce Spring
Washington -- This may be the most un-silent spring in 17 years.
From the Mississippi to the Atlantic, much of the country will be buzzing to the love call of the 17-year locust. It can be one of the most awesome and overpowering noises in nature.
Billions and billions of these large insects will dig open their individual ground burrows and crawl out some warm evening. They will be suddenly responding to a biological clock that ticks off one of the logest and strangest life cycles of the insect world.
From late April in the southern states to early June in the north, the ground and trees will swarm with the scurrying insects, the National Geographic Society says. The 17-year locusts appearing this year are from widespread brood X; those of other years are more localized.
Are Native Americans
They are natives only of this part of the world. In 1633, the newly arrived Pilgrims of Plymouth, Massachusetts, were astonished one morning when they beheld “ a numerous company of Flies which were like for bigness unto Wasps or
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