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rnaaaa...roan; They are not locusts, but larmless cicadas who eat nothing ibove ground during their final >ix weeks of life. Looking like inch-long crawfish is they emerge from their ialf-inch-wide holes, they mmediately climb tree trunk or > ranch, fasten their front feet, ind start molting. Within a few ninutes, the brown carapace tangs empty like a discarded acket and nearby the young idult is drying its wings. Drumming and Sawing Males begin their noisy din, ribrating drumlike plates on their sides. After mating, females crawl )ut on the limbs and twigs and itart drilling holes with sawlike rgg-layers. Each female may pump up to >00 eggs into dozens of holes, \fter six weeks, the branches are rrawling with minute larvae. They oon fall to the ground and dig nto the nearest crevice to begin L7 years of tunneling, libemating, and growth. The tiny, sawed holes weaken lie .branches, which snap joff. Other insects may damage the ;rees through these wounds, but iome trees appear to grow itronger after such natural iruning.
The 17-year locust’s only defense against birds, squirrels, and man is in numbers. As many as 40,000 may pop out of the ground beneath a single big tree. The black “W” on each of the wrings has long brought forth predictions of war. American Indians considered the cicadas’
Over the years, as conditions mproved, CARE has ended aid to 18 nations. It currently helps the leedy in 35 countries from Latin America to the Middle East, \frica and Asia.
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