Bob Shell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sunday, August 21, 2005, at 09:35 PM, Mark Roberts wrote: > >> My SO and I moved to Pittsburgh 3 years ago. Every summer, beginning in >> August, we've heard (but not seen) what we have taken to calling a >> "clickety bug". It makes an click-click-click-click-click noise (from 5 >> to 25 clicks) and then pauses for a minute or more. Unlike crickets, >> for example, these bugs don't seem to exist in great numbers, as we can >> usually detect no more than 4-5 of them in the immediate area. Any >> suggestions as to what it might be? Just curious - and we have been for >> 3 years ;-) > >Indoors or outdoors?
Outdoors. Here's what they sound like: http://www.robertstech.com/temp/clickety.mp3 I think there are two of them going in this recording. You can hear the "click-click-click-click" noise in the background behind all the crickets and traffic noise, etc. :) -- Mark Roberts Photography and writing www.robertstech.com
