What type of insect makes a beeping noise like an alarm clock going out of batteries?

[rcurtis]

The noise is sime one similar to the one in this you tube video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cPsyzTpQCk

[sandyRoe]

Death Watch Beetle?

[Milvus]

Not a DW beetle, they tap
http://www.arkive.org...llosum/video-09a.html

[crisgal]

i hear that where we live. we have lots of magpies and wood pigeons and i have heard a cuckoo. I wonder if its any of their young?

[snags]

Some kind of Cricket?

[jomifl]

Try this link, you should find it amongst this lot,sounds like a cricket. http://www.avisoft.com/sounds.htm

[jomifl]

sounds a bit like a house cricket

[sandyRoe]

Do you have a battery operated fire alarm in you home? I just remembered, years ago I was visiting an old aunt and she told me she thought there was a bird trapped under the roof. She said she could hear it cheep. We listened quietly and sure enough there was a weak cheep, from the alarm telling her the batteries in the alarm needed replacing.

[rcurtis]

I know it is not the fire alarm or any other electronic device because it only makes the noise at night a few minutes after I turn off my lamp to go to sleep (this bug is somewhere in my house and I can't find it) It might be a type of cricket or grasshopper, but the noise is much louder and about 30 to 60 seconds apart.

[rcurtis]

jomifl...it does sound like a house cricket! The cherps are not as frequent though.

[tamborine]

sounds like a battery flattening out. It's a widget of some sort.

[rcurtis]

Ok I feel so stupid, it was an alarm battery going out that I did not know about. Thanks for the help!

[Nosha123]

ha ha rcurtis.. got me ROFL now!!!

very funny!!!

[RoyH]

You can make a bee ping by hitting it with a bell. OK, it is Friday afternoon!