17
This number is a prime.
Single Curio View: (Seek other curios for this number)
The 17-year locust has the longest cycle of development of any known insect. Note that its Latin name (Cicada septemdecim) has 17 letters. The genus Magicicada is sometimes called the "seventeen-year locust,"
but they are not locusts; locusts belong to the order Orthoptera. [Dillon]
Submitted: 1999-09-02 23:40:00; Last Modified: 2021-05-10 15:58:31.
Printed from the PrimePages <t5k.org> © G. L. Honaker and Chris K. Caldwell