cicada secrets

["John Leonard" <>]

There have been cicadas calling around Hughes after rain and I heard
one calling near Hughes Primary School from a patch of bare soil
between two areas of concrete. So I cleared away the loose debris on
the surface of the soil and discovered its burrow. The cicada was
sitting in the burrow with its tail upwards just below the surface, it
was making its buzzing noise with its wing cases, by beating them at an
incredible speed (I couldn't work out whether it was simply the speed
of them, or whether they were rubbing together, or whether they were
beating against the roof of the burrow.

-- 
John Leonard
Canberra
Australia
www.jleonard.net