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#1970087 6-Mar-2018 18:34

I was at a squash court on the shore last night, there was a crazy number of them crawling out of little spaces everywhere in the court and surrounding courts. It was very weird! Not to mention distracting.

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#1970106 6-Mar-2018 18:59

Depending on the people you co-habit with, it could be one of these: https://www.thinkgeek.com/product/kmnr/ :-)

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#1970107 6-Mar-2018 19:00

What eats crickets, he said hopefully...

Deep fry them ... and you can eat them :-)

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#1970256 6-Mar-2018 23:25

wazzageek:

What eats crickets, he said hopefully...

Deep fry them ... and you can eat them :-)

Yeeesss. I have. In Cambodia. And spiders. To borrow from the wise words of the immortal Mick Dundee:

"You can live on it, but it tastes like sh*t!"

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#1970258 6-Mar-2018 23:27

Fred99:

Could be katydids - if it's a high-pitched repetitive chirp.

I found some on youtube, but they seem to be a foreign variety with a different accent - they don't sound quite the same as kiwi ones.

No, it's more continuous than one of those.

It sounds like whatever it is is up on the roof.

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#1970325 7-Mar-2018 07:49

Recording required! :)

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#1970362 7-Mar-2018 09:21

Have you accidentally locked your wife out of the house, is it possible she has lost her voice? :)

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#1970376 7-Mar-2018 09:44

I seem to recall that when I were a kid dad used to put out Malathion/barley cricket bait at the start of summer.

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#1970383 7-Mar-2018 10:03

I like the sound of crickets and cicadas.

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#1970389 7-Mar-2018 10:04

MikeAqua:

I like the sound of crickets and cicadas.

Me too. To a point. We were camping a few months ago. They were out in force and it was almost deafening. Kept my kids awake till around 11pm. Made for a pretty average day 2.

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#1970392 7-Mar-2018 10:06

A few years ago I had a regular screeching sounds at night, was driving me crazy. I was worried that it was electrical.

Went outside on one particular noisy night and I found a bunch of snails on the window panes.

Their shells were scraping on the glass like fingernails on chalkboards... I cut back the plants close to the house and problem gone

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#1970421 7-Mar-2018 10:43

networkn:

Have you accidentally locked your wife out of the house, is it possible she has lost her voice? :)

Ha. No. I suggested it was the spirit of the dog. Being an Hungarian Vizsla, he used to squeak quite musically and vocally when he wanted something, so I said maybe his spirit passed through the kitchen ceiling and stopped in a convenient insect, just to have a final jape.

It looks like rain all week so perhaps that will shut up whatever it is!