The North American Cicadas.
The insect you are referring to is the periodical cicada. They spend most of their lives underground feeding on tree roots, then emerge in large numbers to mate, lay eggs, and ultimately die after about a week. This lifecycle can last either 13 or 17 years depending on the species.
The insect you're referring to is the periodical cicada. They spend most of their lives underground as nymphs, feeding on tree roots, then emerge as adults to mate and lay eggs before dying. Periodical cicadas have either a 13- or 17-year life cycle, depending on the species.
Cicadas
Spider which lives 20 years
You probably mean cicadas that remain underground for 17 years, emerge, lay eggs and die
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.
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.
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.
No, not all cicadas stay underground for 17 years. There are different species of cicadas that have different life cycles, ranging from 2 to 17 years underground before emerging as adults.
roughly 11000 years.
The underground railroad was built over a series of years, not a specific month.