Comments on: Orange Drummer cicadas http://www.cicadamania.com/cicadas/2007/12/03/orange-drummer-cicadas/ Dedicated to cicadas, the most amazing insects in the world. Sat, 07 Jan 2012 00:25:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Cicada Mania http://www.cicadamania.com/cicadas/2007/12/03/orange-drummer-cicadas/comment-page-1/#comment-59699 Cicada Mania Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:33:35 +0000 http://www.cicadamania.com/cicadas/2007/11/28/orange-drummer-cicadas/#comment-59699 [...] More Orange Drummers [...] [...] More Orange Drummers [...]

]]> By: david http://www.cicadamania.com/cicadas/2007/12/03/orange-drummer-cicadas/comment-page-1/#comment-54413 david Wed, 16 Jan 2008 10:04:45 +0000 http://www.cicadamania.com/cicadas/2007/11/28/orange-drummer-cicadas/#comment-54413 Hi Jodi, Your cicadas (Thopha colorata)are orange and restricted to the centre (Alice) while the "double drummer" (Thopha saccata)is around twice the size, brown and located in coastal eastern Aussie bushland. See the book "australian cicadas" by Max Moulds or go into the web for images (or in cicada mania archives). The orange forms of the "Green grocer" ("masked devil/ yellow monday") are a different genus and don't have the thoracic markings of the Thophas (and they emerge earlier and sing in smaller shrubs and trees than the Thophas that are up the tops of tall gums!). The "GGs" are also coastal and not in the arid centre. Cheers, David. Hi Jodi,
Your cicadas (Thopha colorata)are orange and restricted to the centre (Alice) while the “double drummer” (Thopha saccata)is around twice the size, brown and located in coastal eastern Aussie bushland. See the book “australian cicadas” by Max Moulds or go into the web for images (or in cicada mania archives). The orange forms of the “Green grocer” (“masked devil/ yellow monday”) are a different genus and don’t have the thoracic markings of the Thophas (and they emerge earlier and sing in smaller shrubs and trees than the Thophas that are up the tops of tall gums!). The “GGs” are also coastal and not in the arid centre.
Cheers, David.

]]> By: youcantryreachingme http://www.cicadamania.com/cicadas/2007/12/03/orange-drummer-cicadas/comment-page-1/#comment-51489 youcantryreachingme Wed, 02 Jan 2008 07:55:51 +0000 http://www.cicadamania.com/cicadas/2007/11/28/orange-drummer-cicadas/#comment-51489 Thank you. That ID'd my friend's cicada for me. Is an orange drummer different from a double drummer? And how can you tell the difference between an orange Yellow Monday and either of the other two? Cheers, Chris. Thank you. That ID’d my friend’s cicada for me. Is an orange drummer different from a double drummer? And how can you tell the difference between an orange Yellow Monday and either of the other two?

Cheers,

Chris.

]]> By: david http://www.cicadamania.com/cicadas/2007/12/03/orange-drummer-cicadas/comment-page-1/#comment-43568 david Tue, 04 Dec 2007 08:50:18 +0000 http://www.cicadamania.com/cicadas/2007/11/28/orange-drummer-cicadas/#comment-43568 Hey, Great shots Jodi- collect a few for a Sydney collector please. These guys are also called "W-bugs" for obvious reasons. David. Hey, Great shots Jodi- collect a few for a Sydney collector please. These guys are also called “W-bugs” for obvious reasons.
David.

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