Massive fly like creature in Crete
Massive fly like creature in Crete
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theplayingmantis

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5,763 posts

111 months

Thursday 8th August 2019
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Was in Crete the other week and every morning we would get a big black horrible looking bug on one of the white pillars or white hammock of our villa. it was about 5-7cm in length i'd say, think with big wings. it looked from a distance like a massive house fly.

i had to wave a mop at it each morning to make it bumble off before anyone would use the pool.

i thought it was a Cicada of some sort (the noise of them and grasshoppers was every) but im not sure as it just looked like a massive house fly.

no pics too scared! we only saw the odd one resting up each morning until one flew near the OH one early evening and she shat herself!

any ideas what it was?

CoolHands

23,345 posts

224 months

Thursday 8th August 2019
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Moth?

Big Al.

69,336 posts

287 months

Thursday 8th August 2019
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I'd say cicada

Try these for size:-

https://www.google.com/search?q=cicada+insect&...

Scabutz

8,816 posts

109 months

Thursday 8th August 2019
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Can't help but reminds me years I went to Cuba. The bugs over there were fking huge. Some of them sounded like a helicopter coming into land.

anonymous-user

83 months

Thursday 8th August 2019
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Flying cockroach? Not sure if they exist out there though.

anonymous-user

83 months

Thursday 8th August 2019
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Loads of cicadas in Crete.

They look like cockroaches,