Baltimore Magazine Article On JWB

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I love the sound of the Cicadias or "hot bugs" as my grandfather called them....they click and rasp through August here and I love to hear their echoing whining noises late in the evenings - reminds me of my childhood everytime.....

I enjoy the ones you are talking about also, Betty. They are the annual ones and do not come in hordes. The periodic ones who emerge from the ground in 13- and 17-year cycles are the ones who are deafening just because of their sheer numbers (in the millions). A lot of people refer to those as locusts, but they are not. In fact, I don't think locusts and cicadas are even of the same family.