Only in a small area in this place, around moister habitat. Attached call includes (presumably) sessiliba which was found mainly in the same areas as this one
Nowhere near as many as last year (< 4 males), same goes for regular Cherrynose, lucky to find one
I heard a couple calling and thought they were A. perulata. I went to investigate since I don’t have many A. perulata observations this summer. When I located it and saw it I realised it lacked wing infuscations and the colour and wing markings were not typical of A. perulata. I realised that this was A. interclusa so I caught one for photos. New species for me!
I found a recently deceased Alpine Hairy Cicada, Tettigarcta crinita, close to Coachwood Glen Nature Trail in Blackheath In the Blue Mountains NSW yesterday. Photos taken and specimen collected. Specimen to be submitted to the Australian Museum, if they are interested. Closest iNaturalist locations in Kosciuszko National Park and no Blue Mountains Atlas of Living Australia records since 1973
Very large numbers of cicadas on two adjacent Eucalypt trunks at 6.30pm. Very little calling
An unknown Calliphora-like tachinid fly. The most interesting character seems to be the males have the postabdomen large, exposed and forming a verticle declivity. Males of tribe Parerigonini have the same postabdomen but following Crosskey (1973) I don't get to genus satisfactorily (Zita being the closest). Body length around 11.5mm.
Some notes from a male specimen:
HEAD: palpi thin, weakly broadened apically, with short black setae apically, longer black setae along length; eyes practically bare (only sparse minute setae detectable under high magnification), upper occiput with yellow hairing beyond the postocular row of black setulae.
THORAX: propleuron haired; 4 strong sternopleurals, 3+1; three propleural seta, none distinctly differentiated; three prostigmatic setae, none distinctly differentiated; no distinctly differentiated pteropleural seta; tuft of setulae (infrasquamal hairs) present on top of mediotergite; prosternum without distinct large setae; barette with only a group of 4 weak setulae anteriorly at the swelling immidiately above the hypopleuron; both thoracic spiracles golden orange.
WINGS: node of R4+5 with three bristles above and below; second costal sector haired below, though hairing more restricted to a single line of setae; cell r5 open; lower calypter without any noticeable fine erect hairs, broad apically, close to scutellum but not against.
ABDOMEN: sternites visible; T1+2 excavate to margin; T1+2 with lateral marginals; T3 with a pair of medial discals, a pair of medial marginals, and a short series of lateral marginals; T4-T5 with a pair of medial discals, marginals along the length; postabdomen large, exposed and forming a verticle declivity.
LEGS: mid tibiae with ventral bristle set around ¾ along length; hind tibiae lack preapical posterodorsal bristles.
Found scuttling around a stone wall would live to to know what it is. About 5mm long.
Unknown spider found March 21, 2013 in a steam tunnel underneath the Beltsville Agriculture Research Center, Ashley Bradford suggested that this might be...Pholcus phalangioides?
Double Drummer Cicadas - many hundreds of them going through their final moult.
Found a shell! Woohoo!
Female - significantly larger than male shells I have seen.
Casuarina
Sighting and photos (c) greg_mccroary.
Field Notes - Floury baker cicada. Several sighted, many more heard.
Floury baker. Head down on tree, raised abdomen to buzz. Several in the area. Riverside trees.
Karool Road, Mooney Mooney Creek, NSW