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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”.

4 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

  3. Excellent page. Reminder of the glorious days of summer when I was a youngster.
    You didn’t mention that the local pharmacist bought black princes wings and made some
    special concoction from them.
    Why were they known as “locusts” 50 years ago?

    Comment by Brian Flaherty — May 13, 2010 @ 5:15 pm

  4. I think they called them locusts because they reminded people of the locusts that are actually grasshoppers.

    Comment by Dan — May 13, 2010 @ 5:43 pm

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