SCOUTING FOR GIRLS 
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SEVENTEEN-YEAR CICADA OR SEVENTEEN-YEAR 
“LOCUST” 
Range: Eastern United States. Pupae emerging from the 
ground. Detail from group in the American Museum of Natural 
History. 
stuff, the Lady-bird beetles, which in the larval stage feed 
upon plant lice; the scale insects of India, which fur- 
nish shellac; the Bumblebees, which cross-pollinate the 
clover, and the Wasps, which fertilize the figs. Dr. Lutz 
says that the manna which fed the Children of Israel 
