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  • Following the sounds of prairie cicadas

    A male M. dorsatus calls loudly from a compass plant flower stem in Loda Cemetery Prairie Nature Reserve.

    A male Megatibicen dorsatus cicada calls loudly from a compass plant flower stem in Loda Cemetery Prairie Nature Reserve.

    Photo by Diana Yates

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  • Editor’s notes:

    The Grand Prairie Friends conservation organization owns and manages Loda Cemetery Prairie Nature Preserve. The INHS is a division of the Prairie Research Institute at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

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