Introducing the Cicada....
Saturday, August 9, 2008 @ 3:07 PM
In the afternoon, between the hours of 2 and 4pm it's siesta time, a time to relax, a time to snooze, a time to keep out of the sun.
It's a pity that someone didn't tell the cicado, a relatively small member of the flying insect family, no bigger than the watch face of an average sized mans watch.
It looks like a very large fly and I've heard them as we've walked through the campo (countryside) and they make a rather odd clicky buzzy sound, the name cicada is a direct translation from the latin word meaning buzzer (That's the high brow intellectual bit over - promise). They are harmless to us, they don't bite or sting, and don't destroy plants BUT....
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