You should’ve visited Garigal NP in Sydney! Some of the trails have oodles of them, impossible not to stumble over a few
That’s cool. Do you have anything like the Gaeana that I have seen in Hong Kong – wings black with white spots so they look like butterflies when they fly?
Yep. Big black and yellow ones, the Speckled Black Cicada (Gaeana maculata):
And one being parasitized by cordyceps fungus:
We don’t have as many cicada observations as we probably should:
I got one of my staff into photography and he’s been keen on insect and arthropod photos, so most of the cicada photos are his.
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