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cicada secrets

To: "John Leonard" <>, "Canberra Birds" <>
Subject: cicada secrets
From: "shaun bagley" <>
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 18:42:12 +1000
John,
 
With all due deference, to use that obsequious legal phrase, think that what you experienced were Mole Crickets. Also called in my backyard after rain. Cicadas cannot make noise in ground since they are in chyrsalis form in which they climb out of the earth to deafen us in the warmer months...after they have split the cases that prevent them making any sound.
 
Regards
 
Shaun
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