To tell the truth, at first I thought it’s a cricket. That is, until I consulted an insect guide and learned the difference in their appearance and sound "instruments". The cricket’s chirp (which only male crickets can do) is generated by raising their left forewing to a 45 degree angle and rubbing it against the upper hind edge of the right forewing, which has a thick scraper; this sound producing action is called stridulation and the song is species-specific. Male cicadas have loud noise- makers called timbals on the sides of the abdominal base, the regions of the exoskeleton that are modified to form a complex membrane with thin, membranous portions and thickened "ribs". Contracting the internal timbal muscles produces a clicking sound as the timbals buckle inwards and return to their original position.

meaning ‘a chirping, chirping cricket on the knot of a black spruce’, the verse which teachers of the Croatian language often foist on foreign students studying Croatian. Try it!