Periodical Cicadas

I had heard that this year we were being swarmed with the Periodical Cicada but for some reason they avoided my neighborhood. Luckily, my brother planned a picnic at Darby Park and it was there that I found thousands of these crunchy creatures, their husks, and a surround-sound chorus of mating calls that reminded me of the sound effect of phasers in the original Star Trek series. I have not researched this, but according to a good friend, the reason that Cicadas are improperly labeled as "locusts" is that in colonial times colonists saw them swarming and equated them to the biblical locust swarms.

Here are a couple Cicada pages to check out:

• Periodical Cicadas (University of Michigan)
• Periodical Cicadas