Word: cicadas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Basically, the technology of today seeks to replace, by a system of Humanistic Values, the older, Insect Values of social systems, i.e., the values of the Ant and the Cicada. But surely I digress...
...everything in sight. If Mr. Chenery had listened to me, I'd have been naming race horses right and left by now. I've never forgiven Mr. Chenery for this, so I practice on his horses all the time. He has one now called Cicada's Pride. That one is by Sir Gaylord out of Cicada. What's the matter with Noble...
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...