LOUD bug or frog...Can anyone identify?

A friend of mine sent me this video of a very strange sounding insect making a mating call or something near her place in the Stuart area. I posted it because think it's very strange myself and even I don't know what the heck it is. Definitely not a Cicada since experts on a Cicada site I linked to said it was either a frog or katy-did. Any guesses?

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Sounds like a frog to me....

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I was wondering where I dropped my cell phone, it was set to vibrate! Thanks!
No idea what that was if I wasn't clear by my first line!

reply to post by superman2012


It sounded to me like an automatic camera shutter.
I guess it sounds a little like a cell phone ring too.

Originally posted by Starwise
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Sounds like a frog to me....

Since I don't hear any other noises like that on the video I guess it is more likely to be a frog. If it were a katy-did or insect I would think their might be more than one. Know I never heard a bug or frog for that matter, that sounded mechanical and loud like this one.

Sounds like this little guy…



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electric zoom

I don't know.

I couldn't hear anything for the crickets and that darn tree frog.

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I just learned something more about frogs.

Me too!

I don't know why they didn't name it the "Sheep Frog"

And, I'm really glad I don't live near any of them

I can here the distinct trill of frogs in the background. So we at least know that frogs are in the vicinity.

While I have lived in the "boonies" for 45 years, I have not heard this particular sound before.

The sound is obviously being recorded at night. So you can easily eliminate other possible answers.

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Stuart Florida. I am from Florida as well...Boca Raton.
Forgot I am speaking to an International audience!

Originally posted by AsuspiciousMANappears
electric zoom

Which is what it sounds like to me!

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Thanks I will definitely share that with her. It sounds like it could be the same critter. I wonder why the one lonesome call here in the video? Sounds like he has no friends whatsoever in the immediate area. Maybe this frog traveled there in a moving truck by accident from another location. I'll have to see if these are indigenous to central south FL.

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Frog

Second line

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I'll have to see if these are indigenous to central south FL.

They are indeed

Habitat: It can be found statewide under logs and debris near water.

FL Frogs - Eastern Narrowmouth Toad

Sounds sort of like a fly, wasp, or bee in a can or bottle. or a cell phone buzzing. Doesn't sound like a frog. Doesn't sound like a grasshopper. Could also be an antenna rotor or a bug zapper on a neighbors home..


Does sorta sound like the toad above, I have never heard a frog make a noise like that around here. Maybe they ate too many flies or are trying to attract flies with the sound.