"Christian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >From: "Mark Roberts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> Illinois Bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>>If it's outside, perhaps it is a cicada? >> >> I thought it might be an odd sort of cicada, or one making a different >> sound, but I found a lot of cicada sound samples on the net and none >> like this. >> >> More data: This insect appears (or starts making its sound) in early >> August and generally continues through September here in Pittsburgh. It >> seems to only make its sound around dusk - from just after sunset until >> around 9:30-10:00. > >It really sounds like a couple of isolated "dogday" cicadas. Not to be >confused with the periodical 17-year/13-year cicadas. The dogday cicadas >have been chirping up a storm in my neighborhood this year. We get dozens >of them in chorus which is much louder and you can't really pick out >individuals. > >This is a sound of a different type of cicada that sounds like yours: >http://insects.ummz.lsa.umich.edu/fauna/Michigan_Cicadas/Michigan/WAVsounds/vitIL72.WAV
Sorta but not quite. Mine make "ticks" or "clicks" that are much more distinct and always come in short bursts separated by long periods of silence, rather than being continuous like the sample here. I'll keep searching! -- Mark Roberts Photography and writing www.robertstech.com
