Redeye Cicada (4/5)

Hemiptera: Cicadidae

Psaltoda moerens  

Having crash-landed on grass and with nothing to climb to use as a launch pad, it took this Redeye Cicada some time before it was able to summon enough energy to get itself back into the air.

Once airbourne again, it rose steadily over a distance of about fifty metres heading for some eucalyptus trees at a height of about eight metres.