Timber Floor Au

Weird huh, just into spring, and its been quiet at night for a few months...

Now im deafened by cicadas and frogs n toads...

I love Oz.


Speakin of Cicadas..

was workin in sunnybank just before xmas, and was gerrin sum tools outta truck, and felt rain..

I looked up at sky, and BLUE !! no clouds... i mumbled on, rain drops again....

20 mins later and 3 visits back to truck, noticed each time i got rain, was next to this bush... i looked and it was cicadas pissin on me ffs

they are HUGE !!

dirty buggers

Clippy

Lmao, that is hilarious - although I have no idea what a Cicadas is, it still made me laugh

Timber Floor Au

LOL

Clippy

Really, is that one? It doesn't look very big?!? Or are you very very small

wanderingwombat

A distant cousin of the dreaded drop bear! :scared:


http://www.amonline.net.au/factsheets/cicada.htm

WW

Timber Floor Au

http://www.cicadamania.net/weblog7.html

Oh yer im dead small Pffttttt

Clippy

Lol, ok so they're huge for an insect :scared: Do they fly at you? Or generally just urinate lol

desperate2go

Anyone know the thing about popping them under your collar and them returning hours later???......or was i being wound up

Timber Floor Au

they are them things you hear at night chirpin..

and yer they just PISS onya

must be KIWI in origin

Clippy

Only thing we hear at night here is the young couple having a bost up on their way home from the pub and screaming and shouting on our front garden!

Timber Floor Au

We couldnt hear our neighbours if we tried

400 mtres from door to front driveway.

albeit, neighbours horses break in now n then and shit on my drive, she says its good for ya roses, i said its shite for ya carpet !! shift it

Clippy

Lol lucky bugger, for the lovely space and lack of noise that is, not for the shiting horses and pissing cicadas small price to pay though I should imagine

chatty34

yuk! I was lmao till I saw the picture.
Thought a Cicada must have been a bird

possoms

PMSL

Tass

What ??????