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Re: FW: [Birding-Aus] Christmas beetles

To: Bill Stent <>,
Subject: Re: FW: [Birding-Aus] Christmas beetles
From: brian fleming <>
Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2006 12:45:58 +1100
Could we have a confusion with the green or yellow Greengrocer Cicada? It has been claimed as the world's loudest insect, with deafening screech in summer. I'm no entomologist, but I cannot say I have ever heard anything from any Christmas Beetle, either the yellowish species or the shiny green one, apart from a bit of a low buzz from wings in clumsy flight. In Brisbane there is a large black Cicada which calls intermittently - a low buzzing 'Beeep-beep' while flying - always sounds as if its engine has cut out when it stops.
Anthea Fleming
in Melbourne, where we have not yet had any Cicadas calling yet, despite some hot days.

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