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Taylor's tulips were the vanguard of the 1962 class of the periodical cicada-more popularly known as the 17-year locust. Her swarm was the forerunner of a wave called "Brood II," which will soon take over most of the Eastern seaboard from North Carolina to Connecticut. According to Dr. B. A. Porter, entomologist at the Plant Industry Station in Beltsville, Md., the 1962 plague should be in full swing (and cry) by the end of May, should taper off about the first of July...
Actually, there are two Fine Old Families amongst cicada aristocracy in the U.S.; Brood II was first noted in Connecticut in 1724, fourteen hatches ago; Brood X was first recorded in 1715. This explains why gardeners, who don't know about the broods, will be puzzled to find another visitation this year, when the last-they remember distinctly-was only nine years ago in 1953. That was Brood X. To complicate things further, there are Southern branches of the cicada family that appear every 13 years, and in some unfortunate areas, the 17-and the 13-year tribes overlap...
...According to Department of Agriculture Leaflet No. 340 (The Periodical Cicada), the noise goes: "Tsh-ee-EEEE-e-ou" ... or sometimes...
...national title with 388. Though he had ridden many good horses, Willie never got a great one until 1954, when he won the mount on Rex Ellsworth's Swaps. This year he is contracted for two of the best: the colt Crimson Satan and the filly Cicada, each of whom was the two-year-old champion...
Wrote Munich's Süddeutsche Zeitung: "Nothing about them suggests the milieu in which they were born ... in the midst of war and destruction Franz Marc's gaze turned inward . . . from crystalline lines he lets the Birth of a Cicada come into being. Animals appear: deer, horses . . . and the feather-light body of a swallow . . . Already far away from presenting the material, the visible, the drawings try to grasp a spiritual reality and make the objects transparent...