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The Little Black and Orange Cicada
A frequent visitor to the Goulburn River and around the outlet gates of the Eildon Pondage this season (2008) was the small black and orange species.

This little critter has also been seen in Tasmania and the Snowy Mountain region.  It most probably has a larger distribution regime than what I have described - and so be it.
 

Wings: The wings of Cicadas are large and tend to dominate to look of the insect. But in reality what we see is the dominating wing vane configuration where the actual membrane is crystal clear.  To add a white material to create the illusion of wings in this instance seems to me to be out of place, so I opted to represent the vane structure by adding just a touch of the black Enrico Puglisi TPI winging material.
 
Check out the TPI in more detail.

Mick’s Black & Orange Cicada - as designed by Mick Hall
Hook: Partridge Limerick (yes, they are back)
Size: 6
Body: Black foam trimmed to shape (see Notes)
Body Pad: Orange foam
Wing Vanes: A bunch of Black Enrico Puglisi Trigger Point International wing material (see Notes)
Head: Black Deer Hair tied bullet fashion.

Notes: Creating the body: for this exercise, using Tarzan’s Grip, I stuck two layers of 2mm black foam together (Darcie Foamies sheets from Riot art and craft stores) and then trimmed the foam to shape.  To create a touch of orange I again stuck a pad of orange foam to the top of the body, this time using a little Supaglue. After tying the body to the hook shank, I again touched the foam and hook shank with a little Supaglue to firmly hold the foam to the shank.  Without doing this foam bodies do tend to roll around the hook shank.  A trick here is to cut a small slot in the foam body so that it engulfs the shank. This makes it stick a little better.

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