The North American Cicadas.
Cicada
North American Cicadas
The North American Cicada.
Cicadas
Spider which lives 20 years
You probably mean cicadas that remain underground for 17 years, emerge, lay eggs and die
The eleven or seventeen year cicada actually lives longer then any other insect. But deep in the Egyptian pyramids there is a insect, that the Egyptians worship, that lives for up to thirty years! It is called the Scarab Beetle, sometimes known as "The Gold Bug". Edgar Allen Poe, wrote a wonderful short story, named "The Golden Bug.
A cicada lives underground for 13 to 17 years then come up and sing then the ladies cicadas mate to mate,have babies,then DIE.
Some species of cicada do come out every 17 years, but others have different life cycles and time periods for when they come out.
It makes a tunnel underground and lives there. It also catches its prey inside the tunnel.
The stick insect lives for approximately one year and then it dies unfortunately... But that's only the males the females live up to 18 months. If well looked after.
roughly 11000 years.
The underground railroad was built over a series of years, not a specific month.