Name of insect lives in SC looks like a giant horse fly, comes out of burrows only once every 17 years?

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Name of insect lives in SC looks like a giant horse fly, comes out of burrows only once every 17 years?

2007-06-21 05:06:33 · 4 answers · asked by Bob 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology

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The name is cicada. They live in other places besides just South Carolina and some southern folks call them jar fly.

2007-06-21 05:11:27 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋

That would be the cicada.

It doesn't really look like a giant horse fly, though. To me it looks more like a cicada.

2007-06-21 05:09:30 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋

Cicada. "Locust" is a colloquial term for the same insect, although locusts are technically a type of grasshopper that migrate in hordes, i.e. plague of locusts.

2007-06-21 05:10:27 · answer #3 · answered by supastremph 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋

Locust or cicada

2007-06-21 05:08:36 · answer #4 · answered by jaybird 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋