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It s going to be a noisier spring this year than usual in Rappahannock County as the love-call of the 17-year locust is heard from Connecticut to North Carolina.
This is the year for Brood Two, a 17-year periodical cicada that is the largest and most widespread brood that appears in Virginia. After spending 17 years in the ground in the immature or nymph stage, the cicadas will crawl out of half-inch holes up tree trunks, shrubbery or other structures and cling until the body wall is shed and the adult emerges. Within a few minutes, the brown carapace hangs empty while nearby, the young adult dries its wings.
A week after the adult cicadas emerge, males begin to make noise, vibrating drumlike plates on their sides jin a mating call. After mating, females crawl out on limbs and twigs and start drilling holes with sawlike egg-layers.
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