Last Sunday, Cory Gregory and I made a trip up to Plymouth County in the far northwest corner of Iowa. Plymouth County borders South Dakota and is separated from it by the Big Sioux River. It contains some of the most extensive prairie tracts left in Iowa, including the Nature Conservancy’s Broken Kettle Grasslands, home [...]
Posts Tagged ‘cicadas’
A New Species for Iowa
Posted in Butterflies and Moths, Dragonflies, Other insects, tagged butterflies, cicadas, dragonflies, Funereal Duskywing, Loess Hills, robber flies, skippers on August 5, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Tiny Prairie Cicadas
Posted in Other insects, tagged cicadas, Loess Hills on January 29, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Prior to last year I was not aware that there were different sizes of cicadas. I think I first learned of the existence of very small grassland cicadas from all-around Iowa insect guru MJ Hatfield last winter. Despite having spent plenty of time hiking around southern Iowa grasslands over the years, I had never run [...]
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