We get a small brown variety around here and the great big Greengrocer -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclochila_australasiae
http://www.pbase.com/afildes/image/68436285
http://www.pbase.com/afildes/image/68436286
- a beautiful beast which I now discover is a seven year cicada!
That's why it's been quiet the last few years.
They are incredibly loud - a big emergence can be painfully loud if you're out
near the trees and they can keep you awake at night.
Andrew Fildes
afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
On 13/05/2011, at 9:47 PM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> Wiki says there are 220 species of cicada in Oz, most in the tropical
> north. I checked the details on the 3 species noted there. One is on a
> 7 year cycle. The other two apparently appear annually although there
> is a comment for one of them that numbers vary dramatically from year to
> year.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
>
>
> On 5/13/2011 2:23 AM, Andrew Fildes wrote:
>> They're tasty but a bit crunchy and buzz a lot going down.
>> Especially the great big green ones.
>> Or so the kookaburra I just asked told me.
>> I don't think we have any really long cycle ones here though the summers
>> have been quiet of late.
>> Perhaps we're due for a big breakout in a year or two.
>> Andrew Fildes
>> afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>>
>>
>> On 13/05/2011, at 12:53 PM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>>
>>> Yeah, but if you were into eating them you'd no doubt be of a different
>>> opinion. :-)
>>
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