| feeding ecology and emergence production of annual cicadas (homoptera: cicadidae) in tallgrass prairie. | the emergence phenology and feeding ecology of annual cicadas in tallgrass prairie are poorly documented. however, these large insects are abundant, and their annual emergence represents a potentially important flux of energy and nutrients from belowground to aboveground. we conducted a study at konza prairie research natural area in eastern kansas to characterize and quantify cicada emergence and associated energy and nutrient fluxes. we established emergence trap transects in three habitat typ ... | 2000 | 28308762 |