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The annuals are a cousin to the aphid or leaf-hopper. They are black with green markings and black eyes and about two inches long. (The 17 year locust is coal black with red eyes and are l'/2 inches long.) They gather in the trees during the “dog days” of July and August according to Hoysa and the male makes mating calls by vibrating a membrane near his thorax. “They’re nothing to get exicted about,” says Hoysa. “They’re more of a curiosity than anything else. We have them every year.”
Hoysa says annual locusts are not classified as pests except that their noisy “singing” might disturb sleepers during the summer. The females are quiet and lay their eggs in slits in tree twigs. Their young feed on tree juices, but don’t do any great damage to the trees.
Hoards of 17 year locusts might make the ends of the tree branches die, but the branches fall off during winter storms and no permanent harm is done, according to Hoysa. The 17 year locusts have an adult span of only about a week. Their life cycles are staggered; one brood will hatch one year, another somewhere else will hatch at a different time.
Hoysa says the 17 year locusts was last seen in the Rappahannock / Fauquier - /Page/Madison County area in 1979. He doesn’t expect their return until 1996.
Cannon’s locust was thanked for ,the interview and freed outside the welfare office so he could continue his cicada crooning.
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