Subject: Rare insect
Location: Las Vegas NV.
July 26, 2017 2:28 am
This flew in my cousins house, it took her a few days to catch it when she did she noticed that it was dead so she though but as she !over the jar it got up. It was playing dead. It did it a cold times. She went to let it out the jar and as she opened the jar it flew out the jar but right back in her house and now she can’t find it but she hears it and has seen it flying around. Can you help us
Signature: Nosy cindi
Dear Nosy Cindi,
Based on this BugGuide image, we have learned that this is the Red Form of the Citrus Cicada, Ciceroprocta apache f. ochroleuca. According to BugGuide: “D. apache f. ochroleuca is a pallid reddish-brown color form most frequently found in n. Arizona, Utah, Nevada and California. ” The sound produced by some Cicadas is quite loud.