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Posted: **Wed Sep 14, 2005 8:18 am**

Identify this bug? About 30mm long.

Posted: **Wed Sep 14, 2005 8:44 am**

A hairy cicada? A mutant dragonfly?

Peter Mc

Posted: **Wed Sep 14, 2005 8:51 am**

If all else fails, try dropping Don Herbison-Evans a line at this website...

He's very helpful in identifying species like this...

Posted: **Wed Sep 14, 2005 9:02 am**

Looks like it comes from the same family of the cicada.

A CICADA THAT HAS BEEN BITTEN BY A WEREWOLF.

kipper puts on CCWR - Bad Moon Rising

Posted: **Wed Sep 14, 2005 9:13 am**

I think you are on to something kipper. Both are creatures of the night and both "howl" in different ways.

kipper wrote:Looks like it comes from the same family of the cicada.

A CICADA THAT HAS BEEN BITTEN BY A WEREWOLF.

kipper puts on CCWR - Bad Moon Rising

Posted: **Wed Sep 14, 2005 10:29 am**

What ever it is, it needs to go on a diet. :lol:

Cheers
Dean

Posted: **Wed Sep 14, 2005 10:46 am**

No idea.
But I don't think it's that cicada like, more like some over-weight moth.

Posted: **Wed Sep 14, 2005 11:56 am**

Some sorta interspecies or inter-bug relationship going on there....

Posted: **Wed Sep 14, 2005 8:05 pm**

Photoshoppus buggeringaroundi

Posted: **Wed Sep 14, 2005 9:39 pm**

No Shakey - it is for real.

Posted: **Wed Sep 14, 2005 10:16 pm**

A bumble leopard bug?

Posted: **Thu Sep 15, 2005 10:30 am**

Whatever it is it's ugly.

Surely we have an etymologist on this forum...somewhere.

Posted: **Thu Sep 15, 2005 11:36 am**

Leek thankyou for putting me on to Don. It is a Bee Hawk Moth

Posted: **Thu Sep 15, 2005 11:54 am**

Oneputt wrote:Leek thankyou for putting me on to Don. It is a Bee Hawk Moth

Hahaha... Now that is very very funny... It's exactly the same species that I asked Don to identify - except mine was still a caterpillar at the time...

I bet you have gardenias in your garden...

Posted: **Thu Sep 15, 2005 12:01 pm**

I think I like it better as a caterpilla.

Posted: **Thu Sep 15, 2005 5:16 pm**

It's a yellow bellied/backed sap-sucker no doubt...

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