They started on the south lawn of my house last night, just a couple dozen. The nymphs give me the blue willies when they crawl on me (and with as many popping out of the ground as there were, a couple decided I was a likely vertical surface - gaaaaah!), but the imagoes are beautiful, and the adults are pretty too (in a totally different way.) I'm really looking forward to this. I am going to head out tonight with a digital camera and a flashlight.
I want to brew a Barley Wine to last 'til the next batch (a good barley wine can last 17 years) and call it "Brew 10".
As long as I am going stream of conscious on this, I was putzing about on GIS th'other day and discovered that there are something like <a href="http://www.zen.uq.edu.au/entomology/ins-info/">60 species of these buggers</a> in Eastern Queensland and New South Wales, Austrailia, and some of those are stunning.
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