Does anyone know what animal makes the buzzing sound outside in the summer?
By jedopi
@jedopi (401)
Canada
June 12, 2009 10:48am CST
My husband says that it is a huge beetle of some sort, but I have never seen one. Do you know what I am talking about? It happens every summer. It sounds like a loud buzzing sound but you can't really tell what direction it is coming from. It's everywhere all at once. My husband told me that he saw this bug when he was a kid and when he went for a walk with our kids last year they saw a dead one, but I have never seen one in my life. Is the sound really caused from a bug? It must be huge to make such a loud noise!
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@Raven7317 (691)
• United States
12 Jun 09
The bugs are called cicadas. They make the noise to attract a mate by rubbing their wings and/or legs together or against their bodies... much like regular crickets do.
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@jedopi (401)
• Canada
12 Jun 09
i checked out these cicadas and I'm still not sure if that is the right bug. Hear is a sample of the sound that cicadas supposedly make http://www.naturesongs.com/cicada1.wav, but the bug I'm talking about sounds a little bit different. It's definitely loud like this though. I showed some pictures of cicadas to my daughter because she saw it last year with her dad but she says that they look different from what she remembers. Could it be because I am in Canada - I don't know where you are located, I didn't check. Maybe the cicadas here are different.
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@nickspinky (198)
• United States
12 Jun 09
I was always told it was the bigger crickets. Im not sure though but may possibly be. I always see them out during the summer I know for sure. They creep me out they are the big ones that are orange and black.
@xomgitskamax (937)
• United States
14 Jun 09
This defiantly sounds like a cicada. They are all around here in the summer. It doesn't mean they all sound the same. They are the only bug that makes that noise all summer long. And sometimes you can find there hard skin that they shed on the tree's. They are harmless. This is there making call.
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