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Predation on cicadas by an Australian Flying-fox Pteropus poliocephalus based on DNA evidence

Helen M Smith, Linda E Neaves, Anja Divljan

Australian Zoologist (2020) 40 (4): 515–528.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2018.029

Published: 01 June 2020

... of insect feeding strategies, most likely in response to variation in insect abundance and activity, as well as abiotic factors such as light and temperature. * Corresponding authors Flying-foxes diet insects Hemiptera ejecta pellet DNA species identification Predation on cicadas...

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Book cover for The Natural History of Sydney

Those noisy Sydney insects - the cicadas

By M.S. Moulds

Book: The Natural History of Sydney

Series: Other RZS NSW Publications

Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales

Published: 01 January 2010

10.7882/FS.2010.018

EISBN: 978-0-9803272-3-6

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What Darwin actually saw in Sydney in 1836

By F.W. Nicholas

Book: The Natural History of Sydney

Series: Other RZS NSW Publications

Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales

Published: 01 January 2010

10.7882/FS.2010.006

EISBN: 978-0-9803272-3-6

... (Reduviidae), a Water boatman (Corixidae), a Leafhopper (Cicadellidae), a Cicada (Cicadidae), a Flatid planthopper (Flatidae), a Froghopper or Spittlebug (Cercopidae), three Parasitic wasps (Chalcididae), an Encyrtid wasp (Encyrtidae), five Eucaratids (Eucharitidae), a Eulophid (Eulophidae), four Seed...

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Ecological notes on the East Gippsland Burrowing Crayfish Engaeus orientalis , including burrow structure and associated fauna

James Fitzsimons, Mark Antos

Australian Zoologist (2011) 35 (3): 853–857.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2011.037

Published: 20 October 2011

... the other. During the 2008 visit, only one animal was present in the burrow. A number of other invertebrates were observed co-habiting the crayfish burrow. During 2007, a spider (possibly a wolf spider) was found in the burrow and a small (<5mm) cicada (Cicadidae) nymph (K. Walker pers. comm. 2007...

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Notes on the diet and foraging habits of the Giant Barred Frog Mixophyes iteratus

G. Madani

Australian Zoologist (2020) 41 (2): 200–204.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2020.028

Published: 30 September 2020

...). The entire body with the exception of the tail and one hind foot had been ingested. The rat was removed for measuring before being successfully refed to the frog. A 57 g adult female barred frog with an SVL of 73 mm spat out a 41 mm, 5 g Greengrocer Cicada Cyclochila australasiae nymph (Fig. 2). An adult...

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Whitley Book Awards 1990

Arthur White

Australian Zoologist (2014) 26 (3-4): 160.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.1990.010

Published: 17 March 2014

... recognition. Two in particular were highlighted as being of extreme zoological significance. In such a situation, t.he WhiUey Committee had no option but to (lward two Silver Whitley Medals for 1990. The committee's decisions were: Whitley Medals -Australian Cicadas" by Max Moulds The New South Wales...

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One year on: rapid assessment of fauna and red fox diet after the 2019–20 mega-fires in the Blue Mountains, New South Wales

Emma E. Spencer, Chris R. Dickman, Glenda M. Wardle, Thomas M. Newsome, Aaron C. Greenville

Australian Zoologist (2022) 42 (2): 304–325.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2022.033

Published: 10 August 2022

... Unknown skinks 16.7 0.0 0.2 0.0 2 0 Arthropods Beetle/cockroach 66.7 54.5 32.3 11.5 7 6 Cicada 58.3 54.5 24.3 43.6 6 6 Cocoons 8.3 0.0 5.8 0.0 1 0 Vegetation Unknown vegetation 25.0 9.1 8.3 1.8 2 1 Figure 4: Non-metric multidimensional scaling (NMDS) of vertebrate composition of captured via remote camera...

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A Saga of Nesting Kookaburras

L. E. Crawford

Australian Zoologist (2014) 22 (4): 7–10.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.1986.005

Published: 17 March 2014

...: lizards, snails, worms, cicadas and steak (the latter from stone house at the rear). 18 November Ditto -both birds Rain and Dull 20 November Dull Feeding routine: bird (male mostly?) alights on Silky Oak, makes speech, holds up offering, makes another speech (still with mouth full), dives into,box...

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Insect farming and consumption in Australia - opportunities and barriers

Julia Bartrim

Australian Zoologist (2017) 39 (1): 26–30.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2017.016

Published: 01 December 2017

..., grinding them up into powder and baking them into biscuits, breads, pastas and energy bars. They are also making them irresistible by coating them in chocolate! But working around this Western aversion, through product innovation, is only one of many hurdles the 1 When grasshoppers and cicadas are boiled...

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The diet of Flying-foxes in the Sydney and Gosford areas of New South Wales, based on sighting reports 1986-1990

K. A. Parry-Jones, M. L. Augee

Australian Zoologist (2014) 27 (3-4): 49–54.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.1991.006

Published: 17 March 2014

... reported a Wg-fox catching a cicada on the wing. The bat was almost certainly a P. polio- cephdus. Flying-foxes are able to use blossom, fruit, and leaf from a variety of native and introduced plants. The variety of species used is probably greater than listed in Tables 1 and 2 because the data are biased...

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A review of terrestrial wildlife trade originating from Solomon Islands

Tanya Leary

Australian Zoologist (2014) 27 (1-2): 20–27.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.1991.003

Published: 17 March 2014

... (Stickinsects) " : Tettigonidae (Grasshoppers) ORDER: HOMOPTERA (Cicadas) finement and shipping of fauna; licensing of exporters; requirements for record keeping by exporters so that geographic areas of collection may be monitored; and a schedule of species permissible for export with quotas which may...

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River Dreams: the People and Landscapes of the Cooks River

Paul I Boon

Australian Zoologist (2020) 40 (4): 656–662.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2019.007

Published: 01 June 2020

... he conference venue; the oral presentations were sometimes confessed that since the 1980s the Cooks River has drowned out by the cacophony of the massed cicadas become a personal obsession . Soon after he admitted outside, more often by the incessant racket of the poker that This book...

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The Red-whiskered Bulbul Pycnonotus jocosus in Australia – a global perspective, history of introduction, current status and potential impacts

Matthew Mo

Australian Zoologist (2015) 37 (4): 461–471.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2015.014

Published: 01 September 2015

... in Mauritius (Linnebjerg et al. 2010). The Red-whiskered Bulbul preys on arthropods such as cicadas (Cicadidae; Rose 1999), flies (Diptera; Chisholm 1933), aphids (Aphididae; MacPherson 1921, 1924), ants and their larvae (Formicidae; Chisholm 1933; A.J. Leishman, unpubl. data), moths and their larvae Figure 2...

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Demographic and dietary responses of small mammals to high severity fire

Christopher R. Dickman, David C. D. Happold

Australian Zoologist (2022) 42 (2): 256–277.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2022.018

Published: 09 May 2022

... site than in the control, and perhaps reflects greater access to taxa such as cicadas, leaf hoppers, shield bugs and other hemipterans whose populations responded to the flush in ground cover and the abundance of new leaves on epicormic shoots. Overall, there is little evidence that the immediate post...

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Whitley Awards 2017

Australian Zoologist (2018) 39 (3): 535–558.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2017.043

Published: 01 September 2018

... post-war years when the natural landscape was so much less disturbed than it is today. My father was a railway man, so we lived in country towns. Out of school hours were spent fishing for yabbies in farm dams, chasing rabbits down burrows, bringing home pet cicadas, looking for the first Christmas...

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2014 Whitley Awards

Australian Zoologist (2015) 37 (3): 403–422.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2014.045

Published: 14 April 2015

... of what the animals really look in a tree hollow. He s lured out in the morning by all sorts like, they re very accessible in their style, but accurate of noises; the activity of kookaburras calling, honeyeaters too, and places each in their environment - I can see kids feeding, cicadas and butterflies...

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Fossil Mammals of Riversleigh, Northwestern Queensland: Preliminary Overview of Biostratigraphy, Correlation and Environmental Change

Michael Archer, Henk Godthelp, Suzanne Hand, Dirk Megirian

Australian Zoologist (2014) 25 (2): 29–66.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.1989.001

Published: 17 March 2014

... undet) --Genus and sp. 1 --Genus and sp. 2 Hemiptera Cicadidae (cicadas) --Genus and sp. 1 Coleoptera Curculionidae (weevils) --Genus and sp. 1 Families? (no. of genera undet) --Genus and sp. 1 --Genus and sp. 2 Crustacea lsopoda (daters) Family? Genus and sp. 1 Pisces Teleostii Family? --Genus and sp...

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Book

The Natural History of Sydney

Series: Other RZS NSW Publications

Publisher: Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales

Published: 01 January 2010

10.7882/9780980327236

EISBN: 978-0-9803272-3-6

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Australian Zoologist (2021) 41 (2): fmi–fmcliv.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2021.010

Published: 09 April 2021

... with an SVL of 73 mm spat out a 41 mm, 5 g Greengrocer Cicada Cyclochila australasiae nymph (Fig. 2). An adult barred frog was found with a Funnel Web Spider Hexathelidae spp. almost completely in its mouth (Fig. 3). One adult barred frog expectorated (presumed to have been grabbed but not swallowed) two live...

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Australian Zoologist (2022) 42 (2): fmii–fmcdxcviii.

https://doi.org/10.7882/AZ.2022.038

Published: 31 August 2022

..., and perhaps reflects greater access to taxa such as cicadas, leaf hoppers, shield bugs and other hemipterans whose populations responded to the flush in ground cover and the abundance of new leaves on epicormic shoots. Overall, there is little evidence that the immediate post-fire depletion...

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