10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SEVENTEEN-YEAR LOCUST»
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The
Seventeen-
Year Locust...
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
BROOD II of the "seventeen-year locust," or periodical cicada, is expected to
make its debut this year. A coming-out party of these denizens of the underworld
has been predicted for this summer by authorities, and we have been tipped off
that ...
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The Frank C. Brown Collection of NC Folklore: Vol. VII: ...
General: Bergen-Newell, 152 (the seventeen-year locust has a "W" on ... 1809,
and 1826) — Kentucky: Rainey, 10 (seventeen-year locust with "W" on its wings) ;
also (the "W" on the wing of a locust portends woe, want, and war) ; Thomas, No.
Newman Ivey White, Wayland D. Hand, 1977
Distribution of the Seventeen-Year Locust. — Mr. L. G. Olmstead, of Fort Edward,
sends us an account of a recent interview with Dr. Asa Fitch, the distinguished
entomologist of Salem, New York, from which we extract the following particulars
...
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I Must Remember This: A Southern White Boy's Memories of the ...
We didn't know anything about the complex life cycle of the cicada, but we had
heard them called the seventeen-year locust. That day we looked for shells
abandoned by cicada adults and found some within reach. But the shell that
intrigued ...
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The Register of Pennsylvania: devoted to the preservation of ...
devoted to the preservation of facts and documents and every other kind of useful
information respecting the state of Pennsylvania Samuel Hazard. THE
SEVENTEEN YEAR LOCUST. THE SEVENTEEN YEAR LOCUST- GBOBGE
KELLER.
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Hazard's Register of Pennsylvania
THE SEVENTEEN YEAR LOCUST. The twigs of different plants, which were
punctured by the seventeen year Locust, last season, present now almost the
same appearance as when the eggs were deposited 'in their nidus. It is almost ...
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Ninety-nine Gnats, Nits, and Nibblers
First of all, strictly speaking (or rather, entomologically speaking), the seventeen-
year locust is not a locust at all. Locusts are the leathery-winged, grasshopperlike
creatures that were responsible for one of the biblical plagues. The cicada ...
But the next sentence reads: "If we have had the seven-years' itch, we have not
seen the seventeen-year locust yet in Concord" (331-332). Insofar as the
parallelism of the two sentences obtains, the itch would be comparable to the
spring, the ...
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History of Harrison County
The Seventeen Year Locust. Bulletin No. 68 issued in September 1900 from the
Agricultural Experiment station of the State University at Morgantown by
Professor A. D. Hopkins, gives an interesting account of the Cicada or Seventeen
year ...
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SEVENTEEN-YEAR LOCUST»
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The Song of the Cicada
The chirp of a single Magicicada septendecim, a type of cicada, is hardly ... efforts of modern scientists, they're commonly known as the “seventeen-year locusts. «New Yorker, May 13»
