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From Peter Allen
This is a photo of a Bladder Cicada - taken in our back garden. We found it on our Wonga-Wonga Vine. I didn't know about these little beggars until I came here. They are the things that often make a loud 'rattling' sound in the twilight. At first I thought they were a variation of a Burrowing (Mole) Cricket, which I was used to in Sydney and the South Coast, but realised what I was hearing was something else when I heard Mole Crickets as well. These things have a much better camouflage - the wings look very like leaves - and an abdomen that is almost conical and much larger in proportion to the rest of it than is the case with the cicadas we used to see in Sydney and Illawarra.