From the May 16, 1936, issue
By Science News
LONGEST-LIVED OF ALL INSECTS; NOT THAT OF BIBLE PLAGUE
Old-age champions of the insect world are beginning to appear in the Southeast. They will swarm in uncountable millions, over a great part of the eastern United States, before their day of sunlight and song is ended, in the closing days of June.
They are the 17-year cicadas, usually called 17-year locusts. They will appear from Georgia on the south to Michigan on the north, from Long Island on the east to the Mississippi River on the west, with smaller outlying swarms in Wisconsin, New England, and other border areas. Similar insects, the 13-year cicadas, will appear in a single compact area, where the “corner” of Mississippi fits into Louisiana. They are rather large insects, about the size of big bumblebees, with transparent, dark-veined wings.