This has to be the best example of fantasy meeting reality
Tom Mason@tomsmason91
James Bond Will Not Return VII
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Lindsay Popple
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Lindsay Popple
@_DrPop_
Environmental consultant, cicada researcher & taxonomist, audio recordist, birdo, interested in eucalypts; creator of 'A web guide to the cicadas of Australia'
North Queensland, Australia Katılım Temmuz 2014
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@RobinSSci @OutbackEco That’s an early record for the nocturnal Western Bent-winged Cicada (Froggattoides pallida).
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A couple of nights ago I heard a rattling outside my bedroom window and went out to find this scene: the resident wheatbelt stone gecko (Diplodactylus granariensis) had caught a cicada for dinner.
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@ecotechnica @cicadamania It would make sense for the name to refer to Macrotristria given the characteristic red “nose” (connotations of overindulging on whiskey). Could be teneral, as suggested, but there is also an inland form of M. angularis that has pale wing membranes as described in Moulds (1990).
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@cicadamania @_DrPop_ Haven't heard of this one. I'd hazard a guess it might be referring to a White Drummer. I've heard from some people who refer to a Floury Baker as a White Ghost.
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@_DrPop_ @ecotechnica -- have you ever heard of a "White Whiskey". My guess is a teneral Macrotristria angularis, a Floury Baker, or a White Drummer. Someone in their 70s said they remember the name from when they were a kid.
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Introducing the Adelaide Buzzer (Myopsalta bisonabilis): a new species of #cicada with a metallic call from south-east South Australia. More info (and sound recording) here:
dr-pop.net/bisonabilis-79…
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‘It could be the death of the museum’: why research cuts at a South Australian institution have scientists up in arms theconversation.com/it-could-be-th… via @ConversationEDU
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I had a chat with Simon Beaton about the widely anticipated emergence of 13 and 17 year periodical # cicadas in North America. Listen here: listnr.com/podcasts/the-b…
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Article published in the Conversation today on the joint emergence of periodical cicada Broods XIX and XXIII
theconversation.com/billions-of-ci…
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This explains the non existent influence of the El Niño on Australian weather this summer
Joelle Gergis@joellegergis
Some people are wondering why it has been a wet El Niño. It's unlike some of the 'classical' events of the past. Usually cooler than average ocean temperatures prevail around Australia during El Niño events, suppressing rainfall. By comparison, conditions in 2023 were very warm
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@awconservancy Excellent, in fact there are two Zebra Finches in the photo just below the finch nest…
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A nest with dual occupancy 🏠 Visitor Christine Rand recently captured these images of a Little Eagle nest at Bowra Wildlife Sanctuary (QLD). If you look closely, you can also spot the (much smaller) second nest, likely belonging to a finch species. #BirdWeek
📸 C Rand/AWC
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Australia is voting on its favourite sound! The case for the world's largest insect rings clear📢
The soundtrack to our Summers, up to half of the world's cicada species call Australia home!
We’re *buzzing* to have contributed to vital research documenting their diversity...
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Great to see a flock of Scarlet-chested Parrots feeding on green herbage in Gluepot Reserve, South Australia this past week!
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🦗Listen up!🦗
In just two nights at Brooklyn Wildlife Sanctuary, entomologist Dr Popple & his team discovered a rhythmic call unique to the Northern Greengrocer *and* a potential new species, thanks to the area's excellent species richness. Stay tuned for more!
📸🔊L Popple/#AWC
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Five new species of frogs, including one with camouflage that makes it look like bird droppings, have been described in a new paper led by SA Museum Honorary Researcher Dr Steve Richards & researchers from @qldmuseum & @Griffith_Uni. cosmosmagazine.com/nature/five-ne…
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Some will never finish the work set out to be done. Not because we didn't try but because the work is larger that any of us. Taxonomy is one such thing. #midjourney #taxonomy
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Dear ecologists: how do you spell the abbreviated version of "reconnaissance"? As in when you go to scope out field sites (or whatever), but not collect data. No strong opinions here, every one looks wrong to me 🙄
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Check out the first ever recording (with video) of a Shoalwater Cherrynose cicada (Macrotristria stevewilsoni) youtu.be/c3LJILT7svo via @YouTube
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A warm day in northern Tas & the cicadas are in full voice
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