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Cicada 17 year recording opportunity

Subject: Cicada 17 year recording opportunity
From: "Adam Liberman" <>
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2004 17:54:29 -0000
Noticed this article on Cicadas. It looks like this is your once in 
17 year chance to record them.
- Adam

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Planning a May wedding in the eastern United 
States? Take the party indoors to avoid billions of buzzing cicadas 
set to swarm the area after 17 years of living below ground. 

Called periodical cicadas, the thumb-sized insects emerge every 17 
years and fly around in a noisy, mating frenzy before dying weeks 
later, littering the area with crunchy shells.

Complete article is at:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/science_cicadas_dc






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