Chorus Cicada

This chap is one of many making the background noise in the garden and was down low enough for me to zoom in on.  It was a relief to land at Nelson  airport today and escape the humidity of Auckland.  Our driver fellow blipper Andrew was waiting right outside the terminal.  How good is that.

The Ugly Bug Ball                sung by Burl Ives

Once a lonely caterpillar sat and cried,
To a sympathetic beetle by his side.
"I've got nobody to hug,
I'm such an ugly bug."
Then a spider and a dragon fly replied,
"If you're serious and want to win a bride,
Come along with us,
To the glorious
Annual ugly bug ball."
Come on let's crawl
Gotta crawl, gotta crawl
To the ugly bug ball
To the ball, to the ball
And a happy time we'll have there
One and all
At the ugly bug ball  . . .