Do cicadas prefer certain trees over others? When looking around trees in my yard, I find way more cicada shells around my Callery Pear tree than around my Red Maple and Silver Maple, but then I’ve also found none at all around my second Callery Pear.

I just couldn’t wrap my head around trying to explain this so I’ll leave this to @WeeCorbie and @willc-t … Lol.

i don’t much know about north american cicadas however new zealand cicadas do often prefer to lay their eggs on/feed on certain species of trees over others. however i don’t know why they would prefer a tree of the same species over another. it could be because one has a more developed root system o…

All the ones I find in my area are in Pinus & Quercus ilex. But idk if this is the case in other areas with other types of vegetation Edit: I refer to Cicada Orni

For my group (Okanagana) there does appear to be some host specificity on what they’ll lay their eggs on, and in some cases they will only use a single species of plant. The host is unknown for the majority of Okanagana species though, and some of the northern taxa such as Okanagana rimosa have been…

As for the Magicicada thing, I think it happens occasionally. A park down south of me part of Brood II has had an obs of Magicicada, and a large part of the park is pine. But, I think that means I’ll have to wait until 2030 to be sure, lol. The park also has very sandy soil, so I’m not too sure why …

Yes, definitely. Some do not have clear preferences, but I have never seen the Australian genus Pauropsalta on anything other than Myrtaceae. Ewartia seems to feed only on Acacia.

Magicicada do demonstrate a preference for certain trees - it especially seems to prefer fruit trees. One site that we visited during Brood IX was a grassy area bordering a forest of oak, tulip poplar, hickory, and other nice native trees, and I was quite surprised that, with all these other trees a…

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Do Cicadas Prefer Certain Trees?

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