Can you guys recognize this adorable creature?

[MB]

I think you might be getting mixed up TD https://youtu.be/0JJz36rSob0

Thanks Clunk mate, that was dead set awesome, humbling:-) !!

[Clunk]

Great video. The ones we see in Melbourne East emerge annually I think, 'cos I've been hearing them pretty much
every summer for past few years.

Yep same here, apparently over 220 types in Australia, around 2000 over the world. ..

[MB]

@dom14 mate. Clunks video narrated something like 'Combined they are the noisiest awesome pricks on earth'. My experience some 20 + years ago in the Vic-Cathedral Ranges was truly deafening. We in fact cut off cigarette butts to use as ear plugs for the first 36hrs and then packed up camp and headed home. Nature always wins, lol ;-)

[Clunk]

@dom14 mate. Clunks video narrated something like 'Combined they are the noisiest awesome pricks on earth'. My experience some 20 + years ago in the Vic-Cathedral Ranges was truly deafening. We in fact cut off cigarette butts to use as ear plugs for the first 36hrs and then packed up camp and headed home. Nature always wins, lol ;-)

first time I heard them in all their glory was about 12 years ago on a 20 acre bush block property my brother rented. First time I went up there you could here them in the distance, so I wnt for a wee walk though a bit of bush, then found myself in a bit of a clearing....... It was such an eerie sound, especially as I'd not heard it before, and loud was an understatement, It was actually quite disorientating to be honest

[dom14]

Yep same here, apparently over 220 types in Australia, around 2000 over the world. ..

No kidding!!!
You've done all that homework?!
Regardless you still owe me a stubby 'cos I triggered your curiosity.

Don't you feel humbled 'cos these little creatures are way above us?
They were here hundreds of millions of years before us and they will be here for hundred of millions of years after we're gone.
That is the closest I get to be religious.

[dom14]

@dom14 mate. Clunks video narrated something like 'Combined they are the noisiest awesome pricks on earth'. My experience some 20 + years ago in the Vic-Cathedral Ranges was truly deafening. We in fact cut off cigarette butts to use as ear plugs for the first 36hrs and then packed up camp and headed home. Nature always wins, lol ;-)

That is absolutely true!
The bastards drive me nuts at times, but still can't help loving them.

For the most part, they practically hurt nothing to survive and give back a lot to the nature.
The trees they suck the sap to survive do survive themselves and get stronger in the process.
It's heart warming to see there are so many creatures on the planet that are created by nature that gives more than they take.

For me, that's religion.