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Image Credit: SUBMITTED: Darren Copley February 20, 2021 - 10:30 AM They re pretty clumsy fliers and spend nearly their entire lives underground, and while their name is generally only used by scientists, the Okanagan Valley does have its own family of insects named after it. Their genus name is Okanagana but they are more commonly known as cicadas. They re often described as the sound of summer and there s no escaping the hum coming from the insects on a hot evening in July and August. While the sound they make is very recognizable, the scientific name Okanagana, has never become a common term. As with all things related to insects, there is not just one Okanagana cicada, and the word Okanagana actually refers to the insects genus. In the genus Okanagana, there are more than 60 species across North America, largely in the U.S. but also here in the Okanagan Valley.

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