Are there any bug/ insect experts on this site, specifically cicadas.

[Matt_01]

A completely OT question and in no way related to travel or flying, prior to 2020 over the past 10 years I spent little time at home and have not really noticed this in the past. Also as background as a kid in NSW I used to pick cicada shells from the trees, now some 40 years later I now live in SA. Recently it seems every evening the cicadas start chirping in my front yard, I quite like the noise they make and find it relaxing, however each night at roughly the same time they just stop as if the orchestra conductor has waved the batton and there is silence. The trees we have in the front yard are established x1 coughe myrtle, x3 ornamental plums, x1 native frangipani, and a couple of pine type plants.

 

[JohnM]

Found an old video I did from a very loud year of cicadas

Says video unavailable because it's private when try to play it.

 

[RB]

Says video unavailable because it's private when try to play it.

Sorry, have changed settings now-hope it works now

 

[JohnM]

Sorry, have changed settings now-hope it works now

Yep, that has to be cicadas - in full song during daylight.

 

[Matt_01]

I suspect that it is crickets or katydids that you are hearing.

After doing some more research via Google and Youtube I believe you are correct and I suspect that my friends (former) are not cicadas and are either crickets or katydids. Since posting this thread I have dropped 100-150mm of mulch across our garden beds and now the once "quite nice sound" which used to be relaxing seems to have vanished and replaced with a varying 24/7 chirip. Not sure if the original alpha cricket or katydids is still with us or if it is a case of the garden wars, either way my head is now done with the 24/7 chirping.

 

[AIRwin]

‘As loud as a jet taking off’: Why do cicadas sing at dusk?

Summer is no time to relax for these ancient insects. How and why do they produce their high-decibel song?

amp.smh.com.au

 

[VPS]

Does anyone know what this is? Pagin @JohnM

 

[JohnM]

Does anyone know what this is? Pagin @JohnM View attachment 267162View attachment 267163

Apart from it being a beetle, no. Rather nice, though.

 

[Solid]

Does anyone know what this is? Pagin @JohnM View attachment 267162View attachment 267163

Fiddler Beetle

 

[VPS]

Fiddler Beetle

Thanks - it is cute but dead

 

[AIRwin]

Just came across this:

Isolated water droplets coming from trees could be cicada 'rain', otherwise known as pee - ABC News

amp.abc.net.au