File:Sagebrush cicada (Okanagana luteobasalis) on Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge (35280684671).jpg

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It's Cicada Time!

We see/hear a few sagebrush cicadas (Okanagana luteobasalis) every year at Seedskadee NWR. Some years there are many. They are a different species here than the famous 17 year cicadas. These cicadas do not synchronize emergence, so some emerge as adults each year. Their life cycle is listed as living as a larvae for seven years, then the pupae emerge as adults, mate, and lay eggs before dying. When the eggs hatch, the larvae burrow down along a sagebrush root and live underground for 7 years.

Flyfishermen get pretty excited when it is cicada time. Trout are known to aggressively feed on cicadas that splash down in the river. Sort of like a Big Mac floating past, just can't resist.

Photo: Sagebrush cicada on a rabbitbrush at Seedskadee NWR.

Tom Koerner/USFWS
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Source Sagebrush cicada (Okanagana luteobasalis) on Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge
Author USFWS Mountain-Prairie

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17 May 2018

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