Jon Sullivan on Nostr: In Banks Peninsula and the Port Hills, but not Christchurch city, there's the ...

In Banks Peninsula and the Port Hills, but not Christchurch city, there's the chirping cicada *Amphipsalta strepitans*. I informally call it the maraca cicada because it reminds me of someone shaking a maraca. I don't yet understand why this species is not in the city itself. It cuts out at around the edge of the housing in the Port Hills.

https://inaturalist.nz/taxa/342372-Amphipsalta-strepitans
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