Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/09/03

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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Noisy Insect
From: leica at rcmckee.com (R. Clayton McKee)
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 2009 20:06:29 -0500
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Quoth the Jefffery Smith :

> By the way, these are the bugs whose nymph stage lasts 17 years.

Some do.  Others don't.  There are dozens of varieties of cicadas, 
one of which is the 17-year model.  Others have much shorter cycles, 
as short as a few months to a year.  I don't know which one we're 
dealing with here; it looked like an annual from the picture.

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