Another successful rescue from Mad Cal ... ... after posing for the photoshoot, I put him in the Myrtus communis 'Tarantina' and he hopped (I think with one damaged leg) into the rocks or sand garden.
Lovely shot LOL. I`ve heard loads of these in the trees whilst on holiday but never actually seen one. Well rescued
Good evening, mira ... it is indeed, my dear friend. The 'Tarantina' I have is a miniature but unfortunately hasn't bloomed yet (lovely fluffy flowers) for me although I've had it for several years, bought at the Ventnor Botanical Gardens on the IoW.
Sorry, pip, somehow missed you ... proabably because you're just a pip! So, now you know what you hear ... lovely little creatures, says she tongue in cheek as they ain't so small. I love the sound of them, rather soothing, but thank goodness they are asleep when the Screech Owls are whittering away. :eek:
I'm confused about cicadas, being that we dont get them here. The sound that they make, is it a night time sound or a day time one, look here, http://media.wildcat.arizona.edu/media/storage/paper997/news/2007/08/06/News/bug-Man.Clarifies.Ruckus.Over.Cicadas-2929508.shtml I've heard thay really loud noise in mid day, but that night time hum I asume is crickets.
Haven't read your link, pete, but the Cicadas are noisy b*****s in the daytime ONLY, usually start up here when we hit around 30 degrees but then when we drop come Autumn them are still around a bit at say 25 degrees. I don't hear them at night, only the Screech Owls ... maybe I wasn't very clear in what I said ... surprise
I remember hearing them for the first time in Canada 30 years ago and had to ask what they were and it sounded like a buzz saw. Only heard them in day time and in Singapore daytime but in Washington only at night. There is one native species of Cicada here (Cicadetta Montana) restricted to a part of the New Forest in Hampshire but they are very rare( could possibly be extinct now). :(
Right so that low nightime buzz is probably crickets. And the very loud daytime racket that you can hear, but cant quite make out where its coming from, is cicadas. Now, whats this thing about them only coming out of the ground every seven years or so, that I have been told. Surely they are there every year.
This little chappie was about 8cm long so I wonder how they are so invisible because we never see them. I know we always have them in the Jacarandas ... sometimes if you clap they shut up for a while. :D I can't answer your question about coming out of the ground every seven years or so, maybe strongy can, but they are certainly here every year, be they the same ones or not as I don't know their lifespan. I've read your article now, pete, and notice the female ones are silent :eek: :confused: :D I agree with the singing at the hottest point of the day. Assuming it's the same species, and I don't know what we've got, the babies sure look different. Bit like humans I guess. :D
