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Cicada Calls Can Permanently Damage Hearing The character of La Fontaine's fable has turned into a grotesque American nightmare. One that comes at each 17 years, and which could be gone by the beginning of July. In the Illinois area, chorus of cicadas throb in the oak trees, brain-piercingly loud. "It's dreadful. (...) it's the noise. By midday,... 11 June 2007 07:12 GMT Eating Cicadas These alien looking insects spend 17 years underground as larvae sucking sap from tree roots and spend just one summer singing as adults. But now nutritionists are looking at them as at a precious aliment: cicadas contain the same protein amount as red meat (pound per pound) and many vitamins and minerals. "They'... 23 May 2007 03:10 GMT