Doesn't the 17-year locust or cicada live for 17 years underground as a larva, then comes out and molts (not molt, what is it called when the cicada or butterfly_ imago emerges from the pupa)??** to live only a very short period? I was told only one day, but I can't find anything definite about it. I saw one molting in the place where we camped in Provence.Very nice. Adore the sound they make.

**(we call it ontpoppen, can't find the English word for it)