losses to predation by making them less reliable prey and by overwhelming predators with sheer numbers before significant losses occur.

The annual cicadas are species that emerge every year. Though these cicadas' life cycles can vary from one to nine or more years as underground nymphs, their emergence above ground as adults is not synchronized, so some members of each species appear every year.

Cicadas have been featured in literature since the time of

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