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The cicadas are coming!

You can hear them starting up already. That alien-sounding buzz, especially when it’s hot, is the sound of 17-year-cicadas which most people call 17-year-locusts. As Extension Horticulture Technician Barbara Leach points out in this week’s May 10 print issue of the Salem Times-Register, locusts are more like grasshoppers.     They come out in... »