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November 6, 2005

Australian Cicada Names

Filed under: Australia — Dan @ 7:43 pm

Australia has the best cicada names:

There’s plenty more on the Australian fauna or the incredible CSIRO Common Names site.

Laura Imbruglia sings songs that mention Green Grocers and Yellow Mondays on her album “It Makes a Crunchy Noise”.

2 Comments »

  1. That ‘chocolate soldier’ one is actually a ‘red rocket’ but i think the names for the other ones are very clever. My fav one is the blue moon how beautiful.

    Comment by Ben — December 9, 2006 @ 3:35 pm

  2. haha – very cool in a nerdy way :)

    Comment by a adam — October 20, 2008 @ 2:39 am

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