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Fish and Insect Fossils from the McAbee Deposit  Figure 2: Cicada, ~4 cm Insect fossils are relatively abundant and represent a very diverse range of types. Bruce Archibald, a PhD candidate at Harvard University, is currently studying the insect fossils from McAbee and other similarly aged localities. Insects commonly found at McAbee include flies, plant hoppers, beetles, and wasps. Rare fossils of many other insect types are found, and further studies should provide important information on the insects in the Eocene of western North America. Figure 2 above shows a spectacular fossil cicada from McAbee that is in the collection at the University College of the Cariboo in Kamloops, B.C.
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