"One of the insect marvel:?," says Julia E. Rogers, "is the litc-sLory of the cicada. . - • The life story of a generation begins wheif the females flock to the tree-tops Mid lay their egg-masses in the twigs. In a few weeks the eggs hatch, an< 1 the fat, ant-like larvae wriggle out and fall to the ground. Immediately they burrow beneath the surface, and establish themselves, each alone in a little chamber, near the root ol some plant. „ »• When the seventeenth year is reached, ambition of a new sort is born. The creature, now a pupa crawls to the surface o! the ground into the open for the final moult." During the seventeen years underground it moults its skill five times. 1733.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 434, 27 January 1912, Page 7
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