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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=1 face="MS Sans Serif"><span style='font-size:
9.0pt'>FYI – Randi Doeker, Chicago<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=1 face="MS Sans Serif"><span style='font-size:
9.0pt'>Cicadas are coming; 1990 tales wanted <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=1 face="MS Sans Serif"><span style='font-size:
9.0pt'>August 22, 2006<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><font size=1
color=black face="MS Sans Serif"><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'>Chicago</span></font></st1:place></st1:City><font
size=1 color=black><span style='font-size:9.0pt;color:black'> Tribune<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on"><font
size=1 face="MS Sans Serif"><span style='font-size:9.0pt'>LAKE</span></font></st1:PlaceType><font
size=1><span style='font-size:9.0pt'> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">COUNTY</st1:PlaceType></span></font></st1:place><font
size=1><span style='font-size:9.0pt'> -- Have any vivid memories of carting
away shovels full of large, red-eyed flying insects back in 1990?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=1 face="MS Sans Serif"><span style='font-size:
9.0pt'>The Lake County Forest Preserve District would like to hear about them.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=1 face="MS Sans Serif"><span style='font-size:
9.0pt'>The district is seeking information from residents as it prepares for
the emergence next summer of thousands of 17-year periodic cicadas, which
appear all at once, in contrast to annual cicadas, which mature and emerge at
different times.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=1 face="MS Sans Serif"><span style='font-size:
9.0pt'>Officials want to find out if there were particular locations where
large groups formed or even spots where none was seen at all.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=1 face="MS Sans Serif"><span style='font-size:
9.0pt'>"It only happens every 17 years and people tend to remember it
because it's pretty fantastic when it happens," said Jennifer Filipiak, a
wildlife biologist with the district. "I'm sure we'll get stories from
people remembering having to shovel them away."<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=1 face="MS Sans Serif"><span style='font-size:
9.0pt'>Also known as 17-year locusts, periodic cicadas are related to
leafhoppers, not true locusts, which are a kind of grasshopper. They have red
eyes instead of the green eyes of annual cicadas.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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9.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=1 face="MS Sans Serif"><span style='font-size:
9.0pt'>Cicadas are harmless insects with wide-set eyes, short antennae and
transparent veined wings.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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9.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=1 face="MS Sans Serif"><span style='font-size:
9.0pt'>The eggs for the 17-year cicadas were laid in 1990. The bugs have been
living underground ever since, Filipiak said.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><b><font size=1 face="MS Sans Serif"><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Send information to
forestpreserves@co.lake.il.us or call 847-968-3283. <o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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