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Ray Cannon captured the creature in his garden and brought him in an artichoke jar to the News. Cannon thought it was the 17year variety. The reporters watched the long-winged locust languishing in his glass room on the following morning and sought to ascertain his story.
Regulatory inspector Rusty Wendt at the crop pest control division of the Virginia Agriculture and Consumer Services Department in Warrenton says there are various broods in the Fairfax area this year, but it was more likely that Cannon’s variety was the annual locust. “They look a lot alike,” said Wendt, “But the 17 year does take 17 years to develop.”
Fauquier extension agent Chuck Hoysa put it more graphically. “The 17 year spends 17 years as grubs in the ground and when they hatch they come out by millions. You can’t walk around in the woods without seeing them swarm. If that were the 17 year, your phones would be ringing off the hook.”
Hoysa explained that there are 75 widely varying species of cicada, commonly called locusts—but so are grasshoppers, which are not cicada. So, Hoysa says, people sometimes tend to confuse their locusts. There’s also such a thing as the cicada-killer, a thumb-size wasp which kills locusts and carries them off to holes in the ground w'here their young feed on the victims. The annual cicada is also known as a harvest fly.
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