Ever since we moved back to Collinsville we've heard incessant staccato buzzing of some sort outside of our bedroom window. It wakes me up and is really loud. I've never been certain what is causing this, but it goes on all night and into the morning hours. Early on I believed it was cicadas, but the description of their sounds isn't what I am hearing. Close but not quite.
So I went to Google today and it seems the noise is coming from Katydids, also called Bush Crickets. These look rather like grasshoppers and I doubt I'd know a Katydid from a grasshopper if I walked across one, but the sounds in this video are what I'm hearing each night. And we have a large birch tree and shrubs on the bedroom side of the house nice for these guys. This night noise is new to me and while Dale can sleep through it, I find it difficult.
I wonder if I went out and shook the tree or bushes, any of these bugs would tumble out. And, I think I could be wrong and the noise is Cicadas because I just walked outside and found a big, dead, cicada on the sidewalk. The Cicada sounds like this and yes, that is what I also hear. Maybe both types are involved.
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