Singing Insects

[FayetheADHDsquirrel]

I love listening to insects "sing" during the summer. It is fun to hear the different types and occasionally try to locate them.

 

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You should visit the tropics one day, every sunset the noise is horrendous.

When I was little a common amusement parents made for very small children was to put a Click Click Beetle in a match box and give it to the child to play with. Every time the box gets turned over the beetle will jump and make a very loud clicking noise.

Click beetle - Wikipedia

 

[Captain Caveman]

 

[RemyZee]

I love listening to insects "sing" during the summer. It is fun to hear the different types and occasionally try to locate them.

We definitely have cicadas here, the sound eventually starts to fade into the background. I actually like how it sounds, but--(for being surrounded by them) it is surprisingly hard to find one, even with the multiple expeditions into my backyard.

 

[Judge]

I love listening to insects "sing" during the summer. It is fun to hear the different types and occasionally try to locate them.

One of the ambient sounds on my clock radio are crickets chirping in the summer time. Kind of nice on a very cold evening to play that sound.

 

[Captain Caveman]

The sound of stonework munching through granite...

Ok. I will be sensible...

The silent flight of the earwig which so rarely uses its stunningly beautiful wings... So delicate and lovely! Yet so quiet in flight!

 

[Captain Caveman]

But noisier insects...

The deathwatch beetle I have heard many times but never seen them. They go quiet as one comes near. Yet, the sound they make as they signal to each other is interesting.

 

[FayetheADHDsquirrel]

Cicadas are really fascinating. I discovered this website a couple years ago or so.
Cicada Mania: Cicada Photos, Sounds, News & Facts

 

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Australia has quite a few species of cicada, no 17 year nonsense though, we get them every year up the east coast and in the tropics. The picture below is the common species you see in and around Darwin. I live in Adelaide now which thankfully doesn't have them.

 

[FayetheADHDsquirrel]

We have cicadas every year here as well.