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<blockquote data-quote="M77Fan" data-source="post: 3101935" data-attributes="member: 115996"><p>Now, I find that interesting. In Louisiana and Oklahoma cicadas were called "locusts". They were also called "locusts" where I grew up right on the Canadian boarder on Lake Champlain. Still are. I didn't learn that was the wrong name until I became a biologist. And then too, locusts are really a kind of grasshopper. And Mormon crickets are really shield-backed katydids. Common names and local names are funny. Still I am surprised to find that places in opposite ends of the country have identical misnomers of the same insect. Then again at least where Cajuns are, maybe they carried the use of "locust" from "Acadia" (near my country) with them down to the bayous.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="M77Fan, post: 3101935, member: 115996"] Now, I find that interesting. In Louisiana and Oklahoma cicadas were called "locusts". They were also called "locusts" where I grew up right on the Canadian boarder on Lake Champlain. Still are. I didn't learn that was the wrong name until I became a biologist. And then too, locusts are really a kind of grasshopper. And Mormon crickets are really shield-backed katydids. Common names and local names are funny. Still I am surprised to find that places in opposite ends of the country have identical misnomers of the same insect. Then again at least where Cajuns are, maybe they carried the use of "locust" from "Acadia" (near my country) with them down to the bayous. [/QUOTE]
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