We seem to be suffering from a plague of these characters this year. In all the years I've been associated with Cyprus I have never seen, or heard, so many of them, they are everywhere. Known locally as Zizzeri due to the sound they make they are deafening. Normally being heard but rarely seen this year we find them on the ground as we walk around, get hit by them as they zoom between the trees, and their empty pupal cases are legion.