All the buzz: chorus of ‘deafening’ cicadas to soundtrack Australian summer
by Petra Stock from Environment | The Guardian on (#6S4JS)
Warmer weather brings multitudes of largest and noisiest varieties to east coast, with some as loud as 120 decibels
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The east coast of Australia is heading into a big, loud cicada summer.
Prof David Emery, veterinary immunologist and cicada expert, called it a phenomenal season so far" for green grocer cicadas, which emerged in huge numbers in the Blue Mountains in September and were now making their appearance in Sydney and parts of Victoria.
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