ChimeTsetan

haha jakesolitude, its 100% real.

Looks like a species of Cicada... those noisy seasonal bugs.

thank you very much bayucca... it seems like a perfect match. i shall update the ID. :)

Thank you very much everyone. :)

thank you childs.kj. for bringing it to my notice. :) seems like there are many people using the images in their own webpages. its alright. I think they've got the identity of the insect wrongly because they must have taken the image when it was misidentified over here (before Ashish Nimkar corrected it i.e. 7 months before) :)

i can understand alice. but these days, people have crossed their limit of plagiarism. found my spotting displayed without giving proper credit in different sites. so thats why the obnoxiously conspicuous water mark. :(

alice, its the flowers of Eucalyptus tree. :) someone else called the same tree a gum tree before on my wood pecker spotting. maybe this tree is confusing to identify. :)

great shot Mitu.. :) i think the one which atul found sitting at the same hole was its mother or father. :)

thank you Carol. :)

thank you Azura, Leuba and Sachin.
Leuba, is Eucalyptus tree called Gum Tree???