New Year's Atlasing Around Mt Barney [the silen ce of the cicadas]

[Bill Stent <>]

> racket [this seems to be a pretty 'good' summer for cicadas - someone
> said they have a 12 year cycle and this is the big year].  After the

I think that cicadas have a seven or eleven year cycle, don't they?  A prime
number seems to confuse their predators' breeding cycles or something...

Bill
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