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| To: | Bill Stent <>, |
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| 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 Flemingin Melbourne, where we have not yet had any Cicadas calling yet, despite some hot days. Bill Stent wrote: Forwarded from Michael Hunter: |
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