The head is variable in colour, but never black like the double drummer.

The adult lifespan of the double drummer is about four or five weeks.

Could there ever be a double drummer reunion show?

Unusual for Australian cicadas, double drummers emerge during the daytime.

There are two distinct phases of song, which the double drummer switches between at irregular intervals.

The double drummer has not adapted well to city life; distribution of the species in cities is limited to natural stands of large trees.

Double drummers congregate in groups to amplify their calls, which likely drives off potential bird predators.

It was never double drummers.

Double drummers on tree trunks are skittish, and can fly off en masse if disturbed.

His guitar's running through fuzz pedals, with double drummers playing at the same time -- lots of percussion.

Though the timing of the double drummer's life cycle is unknown, nymphs of cicadas in general then spend from four to six years underground.

Many of them go by common names such as cherry nose, brown baker, red eye, greengrocer, yellow Monday, whisky drinker, double drummer, and black prince.

The underparts of the double drummer are red-brown and black, and covered in fine silvery velvety hairs.

William Lucas Distant described the northern double drummer in 1892, though incorrectly gave the type locality as Sydney.

Male double drummers also emit a distress call-a sharp fragmented irregular noise-upon being seized by a predator.

Like the related double drummer (Thopha saccata), its sac-like tymbal covers amplify its call.

Poems dedicated to the double drummer appeared in the Catholic Press in 1933 and 1936, describing bird predation and its life cycle to children.

Thopha saccata, commonly known as the double drummer, is the largest Australian species of cicada and reputedly the loudest insect in the world.

Dave Brocks proto punk guitar, Lemmys amphetamine driven bass, complete with double drummers.

The double drummer has been known to fly out to sea, effectively on a one-way trip as their bodies have later been found washed up on beaches.

Black Prince, the Green Grocer and the Double Drummer are the common names for three species of Australian cicada.

In 1838, Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville pointed out that the double drummer is native to Australia and not China.

Found in sclerophyll forest in Queensland and New South Wales, adult double drummers generally perch high in the branches of large eucalypts.

The northern double drummer is a large species of cicada, the second largest in Australia, just smaller than the largest species, the double drummer.

Broad-headed compared with other cicadas, the double drummer is mostly brown with a black pattern across the back of its thorax, and has red-brown and black underparts.