Comments on: Cacama valvata Cicada

By: Michelle D.

Michelle D. — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 21:12:57 +0000

Hi, I live in Ontario Canada and in the summer we have thousend of cicada’s coming and going in my back yard! i think its cool that u put up this website!!! hope u put up more picts. of these cool bugs!!!

By: johnny barrett

johnny barrett — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 07:26:55 +0000

went to my freaked out friends house in manchester, n.h. after midnight only to discover a rare and beautiful cicada in our midst…very cool.she did’nt know about them..seen them in jersey and cal…not N.H.aug 22. 2009.

By: miruko

miruko — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 21:14:39 +0000

hello we have so many of them! I belive there the ones eating my punkins and the leafs of my maple tree!
I keep tring to kill the but there mutipling! I’m starting to get worried. Also when my friend Inu came
over there was on in his hair!(of course it was nightime and we were just looking into the sky.
since i just move there and owner didnt tell me about the swram!. they also found a way in!
so im on the move again. very sad because that house had a huge bedroom and bathroom!I’ll eventually
find a new home.with the help of my buddies Sword and Inu.(my friends have weird names)

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 12:12:24 +0000

Eric, they’re part of the ecosystem and aren’t posing any threat.

By: Eric Hollenducchi

Eric Hollenducchi — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 20:28:53 +0000

Im a senior at UC San Diego in La Jolla, Ca my niece and I were hiking in a canyon behind our house and we found a Cacama Valata Cicada on a licorice plant…. it seemed to be in the final stage of its life cycle. I am not an entemologist by any means but I have never seen one in the wild and was wondering if this is unusual? Do these insects pose any threat to the ecosystem in this area/

By: Leanne

Leanne — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 05:36:47 +0000

I photographed one of these in Tucson, AZ this afternoon. They look identical, but I’m not an expert. I wish I had a better lense to do close ups. Yours is a far better photo than mine is.

By: Diane Murphy

Diane Murphy — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:57:16 +0000

I just spotted one out in our yard in northeast Ohio and had never seen anything like it here before. It, in fact, reminded me of some of the insects I had seen in Tucson, Arizona. I looked it up online and discovered a photo of a Cacama valvata, which looks exactly like what I saw.

By: Michele Gilbert

Michele Gilbert — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 18:33:16 +0000

Hi! We live in New Hampshire and have had cicada killer wasps nesting in our yard for the past two year We have also spotted cacama valvata cicadas in flight for the last week. Is it unusual for them to be this far North? I did not see New Hampshire on the cicada emergence calendar. Are we witnessing a migration to a new area? That would be so cool! We are avid nature-lovers and bird watchers. I am very conscious of the plants I buy so to choose ones that will attract and sustain birds, butterflies and bees.

Thanks!

By: scooby doo

scooby doo — Sun, 18 Jun 2006 22:19:43 +0000

i thought this picture is very good but maybe you could downsize it a little bit. thought your website is very good and lacks no information.