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.

 

[Mary Terry]

I like listening to the insects. We had some friends from NYC visit us one summer. We took them to our lake for a barbeque cookout. All was fine until dusk when the insects and tree frogs started making their nightly noises. Our city dwelling friends completely freaked out even though we told them the source of the noises surrounding us. I guess they were hallucinating about being attacked by huge bugs and frogs. We had to take them back to our house so they could feel "safe" inside, away from nature.

I thought it incredibly sad that some people are so stuck - by their choice - in large cities that they don't even know what insects and frogs sound like, and they think seeing a single butterfly in the middle of Manhattan is a reason to post on social media and celebrate.

 

[Mary Terry]

There are a couple of insect sounds I don't like - the whining of a mosquito that is about to bite me, and the buzz of an angry wasp that is about to sting me.

 

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There are a couple of insect sounds I don't like - the whining of a mosquito that is about to bite me, and the buzz of an angry wasp that is about to sting me.

I loved the sound of the frogs, we have well over 200 different species and when you hear many different species together with all their different voices it sounds quite musical.

 

[Captain Caveman]

My Dad and I moved a log or something and a toad was behind it, and the toad panicked when it saw us and screamed. Never heard a toad scream before! We never even knew they could!

 

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My Dad and I moved a log or something and a toad was behind it, and the toad panicked when it saw us and screamed. Never heard a toad scream before! We never even knew they could!

This tiny little frog lives in South Australia's desert lakes. They spend the great majority of their lives in hibernation under the ground and only surface when there's enough water for them to successfully breed, which only happens once every 10 or 15 years.

 

[FayetheADHDsquirrel]

I loved the sound of the frogs, we have well over 200 different species and when you hear many different species together with all their different voices it sounds quite musical.

I love to listen to frogs as well. We are more likely to hear them during times in which we get a lot of rain.

 

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We are more likely to hear them during times in which we get a lot of rain.

That's true here too, but in the tropics you get very heavy rain non stop for 3 months of the year. The rest of the year it doesn't rain a drop.

 

[Judge]

I still recall as a kid when my family went across the US in the early 60s, and I got to see parts of America I never saw before. With a vivid memory of pulling up near Ft. Riley Kansas, and asking my mother what that incredible scary sound was. They sure weren't chirping crickets!

And recalling an episode of a historical tv show called "The Great Adventure" that covered the "Locust Plague of 1874" in Kansas. The beginning of my love for history.

 

[FayetheADHDsquirrel]

This little fella is not yet out of his shell. I spotted him crawling around.

 

[FayetheADHDsquirrel]

It is a cicada nymph if anyone doesn't know that.