tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263424657289079822.post8741493600157491981..comments2007-10-11T14:34:34.952+02:00The Globetrotter Parenthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08305801540206827722noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263424657289079822.post-28924159738916966252007-10-11T14:34:00.000+02:002007-10-11T14:34:00.000+02:00Alex, according to my dictionary, you can say cidada or cicala in English. I had to ask someone what they were called in English and I was told "cicada" so now that is what I call them. Elizabeth, we are near the Villa Borghese.<BR/><BR/>Kataroma, much as I think Australia must be an otherwise fabulous place, you just gave me one good reason not to move there. Flying cockroaches. Ick.Caroline in Romehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08305801540206827722noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263424657289079822.post-53325815844616760952007-10-08T14:37:00.000+02:002007-10-08T14:37:00.000+02:00We get tons of cicadas in Australia. I always associate them with hot summer nights in Sydney. Also lots of other fabulous insects like Christmas beetles (dark green iridescent shells) and amazing spiders (only some of which are poisonous :)).<BR/><BR/>On a more negative note, we also get huge, flying cockroaches - yuk!Kataromahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14978496810226430712noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263424657289079822.post-13559562515082601572007-10-07T16:06:00.000+02:002007-10-07T16:06:00.000+02:00Because 'cicada' is the English word for 'cicala'. :)Ilariahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16062627089125891223noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263424657289079822.post-36574913627475474352007-10-06T13:11:00.000+02:002007-10-06T13:11:00.000+02:00why does everyone keep calling these insects cicada? the correct name is cicala!alexhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06374564265059636011noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263424657289079822.post-3709667424946664662007-10-05T16:44:00.000+02:002007-10-05T16:44:00.000+02:00all my Italian friends come back from trips to the US raving about the squirrels! My Dad instead had to call an exterminator to get them out of the attic where they were doing lots of damage. <BR/>Are you near Villa Pamphili?Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09763064258020825441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263424657289079822.post-19890638059926443182007-10-04T22:29:00.000+02:002007-10-04T22:29:00.000+02:00So cicada are those animals which make noise in the trees? I've never seen one before. I always thought they stayed in the trees and it was near impossible to see one. So I'm wondering how you got that photo :)Delinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03318448281699620966noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6263424657289079822.post-84541080615575338442007-10-04T16:27:00.000+02:002007-10-04T16:27:00.000+02:00That's funny because I saw my first squirrel when I moved to the US and couldn't get over how common they are....and my husband had never heard of cicadas before he met me! :)<BR/><BR/>(oh, it's 'nell'albero' BTW, because of the A) :)Ilariahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16062627089125891223noreply@blogger.com