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Published online 23 July 2001 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news010726-3
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Cicadas appear in their prime
Irregular emergence may foil insects' predators.
Bob Dylan immortalized the rare appearance of periodic cicadas in his 1970 song Day of the Locusts. But he may not have realized that he was honouring a mathematical event as well as a biological one.
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