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Under water noise in a ditch in a farmland. An (un)known ( see edit) small animal making this strange noise.
recored 5cm under the water surface of a small ditch in a polder in the Netherlands.
The cricket sound comes from a tiny water insect called a Lesser Water Boatman ( Micronecta Scholtzi, Corixa punctata ). One of the noisiest animals on earth compared to its body size. More info about how this animal makes this sound: https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/news/center/articles/2011/bbc-06-30-2011.html See picture below.
Piet Spaans, CC BY-SA 2.5 < https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5 >, via Wikimedia Commons
Location: 51° 43' 28.40" N 5° 14' 42.44" E, ditch Hennen weide, Engelen, The Netherlands.
Conditions: summer, July 29th, 2014, 12.10 noon, no wind.
Gear chain: Aquarian Audio Hydrophones H2a XLR 2, just under the surface at the edge of a 50 cm deep polder-ditch in Holland > Sound Devices 302 >Tascam dr-100 Mk2.
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(Verstuurd aan VARA Vroege Vogels op 27 juni 2016)
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5 years, 11 months ago
Thank you for this. What a strange little insect! :)
9 years, 5 months ago
strange and beautyful
9 years, 7 months ago
thanks a lot
great sound
9 years, 8 months ago
Thanks Philip and all others. I just got a mail of someone how told what it was/is. See edit in information.
9 years, 8 months ago
Some aquatic insects stridulate too, so it may not necessarily be a member of the Orthoptera (the group including grasshoppers, cicadas and crickets). However, I don't know to what extent any aquatic insects stridulate in the same ongoing way. As a youngster (back around 1950) I was fascinated by the Screech Beetle (Hygrobia tarda), which made funny noises when handled or otherwise under stress, but that was the only example I personally encountered.