Question: Last night my I heard a sound in my living room that I thought was a smoke detector battery going dead. It was sort of high pitched and electronic sounding. After waking my daughter and following the sound we discovered that it was coming from an insect that looked like a roach with wings. It was less than an inch and brown.

We knew the noise was coming from the bug because it stopped when we killed it. Have you any idea what kind of bug it is?

ANSWER: Well, it could have been one of several crickets; if the sound was high pitched it was likely one of the tree crickets. They are small but can produce a high pitched sound.

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