http://entnemdept.ifas.ufl.edu/walker/bu...
If you want to try to track it down, use a headlamp or hand-held flashlight that you can hold up at the side of your head - the more powerful the better. Good luck!
It probably isn't a grasshopper, nor a cricket. Crickets "chirp", grasshoppers "sing", as you mention.
There is a bug called the "death watch beetle" that makes a clicking sound:
"The common name refers to the repeated ticking sound produced by the adults as they bang their heads against the wood, possibly to attract a mate. When heard at night, this eerie mating call was once thought to count down to the time of death."
http://www.arkive.org/death-watch-beetle...
Another possibility is the common click beetle. There are many species of these, ranging from small brown ones to large black ones with prominent eye spots. But they generally only click once or twice, not continually.
http://insects.about.com/od/beetles/p/Cl...
Click Beetles do.
It's a Cricket >.>
Recently there has been a clicking sound outside of my house that I'm sure has to be from a bug. It doesn't annoy me, it's just something I've never heard before and I really want to know what it's coming from.
I know a kid that is really into bugs and I saw him today so I decided to ask. (if you're not interested in cute kid conversation skip through the dialogue)
Me: Hey! You know every single bug, right?
Kid: Not every bug.
Me: But most of them.
Kid: *puffs up and assumes the kind of confidence little kids sometimes have* Yeah, I know *most* of them.
Then I proceeded to tell him that I kept hearing a clicking bug around my house and he was like "Oh. that's probably a grasshopper" Is he right? It's not the kind of singing sound a normally hear grasshoppers make, it's a distinctive click-click-click. Each click separate and not blended at all.
It's summer right now and I live in a temperate rainforest biome
Please help me learn this mystery 'clicker bug' (as I have come to call it)!
Thank you so much in advance.
