Are periodical Cicadas exist in Chhattisgarh, India ?
: Interactions with the traditional healers. Last week, with amazing information about emergence of periodical Cicada population in United States of America, when I reached to the traditional healers of Chhattisgarh, specialized in use of medicinal insects, the healers not showed much surprise to hear about the insect species that appears in every 17 years and scientists have given it a name Brood X. I showed them the coloured photographs downloaded from internet. You will be surprised to know that most of the healers claimed that these periodical Cicadas are not only present in Chhattisgarh but it is in use as medicinal insect. I got opportunity to interact with the senior traditional healers those have used the Cicadas as medicine twice or thrice in their lives. Around the world many species of Cicadas exist. I searched the reference literatures regarding occurrence of periodical Cicadas in Chhattisgarh but unfortunately no work has been done on this important aspect earlier. After s
