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Anonymous
Hay guise.

I was wondering if any of you have any idea what a (presumably) bug might be based on the sound it's making. I live in the Carolinas, and have been hearing what sounds like an extremely loud wooden creaking, far louder than any tree in the nearby woods would make. It doesn't seem to be explicitly nocturnal, but the vast majority of the time I've heard it has been at night. Any ideas?

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>> Anonymous
some kinda frog maybe?
or a cricket?
>> Anonymous
http://buzz.ifas.ufl.edu/a00samples.htm

awesome site.

Probably a katydid, it sounds like a saw.
>> Anonymous
>>267263
Possible, but it doesn't sound like any cricket I've ever heard, and it'd have to be one -big- fucking cricket besides. Also, I've never heard the frogs around here sound quite like this. Still, it certainly could be.
>> Anonymous
>>267268
try the site i posted, you can hear the samples.
>> Anonymous
I'm guessing it's a cicada?
>> Anonymous
It's probably not a cicada. Cicadas are quiet once it gets dark, so if you're hearing it at night it's most likely not a cicada.

There is a huge variety of different kinds of crickets, grasshoppers/locusts, and katydids--and some of them can be extremely loud, especially if they are sitting in just the right place for the sound to be amplified and reflected back towards you.

Insects like these start making noise at dusk.

Frogs or toads are another option, but if you describe the sound like creaking wood it's probably an insect and not a frog.
>> Anonymous
>>267528
It more than resembles it, really; it's spot on. When I first heard it, I looked for the falling tree. It wasn't until I realized that it was much too loud to be a tree that I started looking up bugs.
>> Anonymous
I remember the cicadas and similar bugs like that being extremely loud in when I lived in North Carolina.

I also remember the frogs singing when the night came.
>> Anonymous
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