> > > I was looking at the the poll, and I have a question. What's a cicada? I would look it up but I'm too lazy.
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> > Well, lazybones, in certain parts of the Unites States during the summer, one can go outside at night and be assualted by the following sound: "CH-CHIRP! CH-CHIRP!"
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> > This is the echoed chorus of thousands of male Cicadas trying to attract a mate. These bugs are, in proportion to their size, the loudest animals in the world. In their adult form they look like a huge fly, but with a harder carapace, no hairs and liquid, mantis-like eyes. Juveniles just look like simple beetles, and their empty, mud covered shells can be found still clinging to trees after the cicadas have shed them in the late spring, I think.
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> > 10"Bugziz!"Kan
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> Oh those things!!!! I had a class over the summer, and my entomolgist teacher was talking about those but I forgot the name of them...

Is that the same thing as a locust? I know they shed their shells...