There's a loud chirping noise, I'm pretty sure it's from inside my house (maybe the walls). I'm thinking maybe a mouse got it. It's not the smoke detector, and it stops every time I get out of bed to check it. I'll probably grab some mouse traps in the morning and set them up. Anyone have any ideas or ever had something similar happen?

Found it, just a cricket. Those little guys are way louder than I thought. Might as well go fishing since I'm up, good thing I took today off anyway.

It's a sign, I'd use a cricket shape crankbait...lol

Crickets are the worst. You're lucky you found it.

I know what its like, I just had to deal with about 100 bats in my attic.

Be glad it wasn't a squirrel.

Did you use it as bait?  I hear they make great topwater lures.

Be glad it wasn't a squirrel.

 

+1  !!

 

I had flying squirrels in my attic.  They're nocturnal, and would start their squirrel olympic games just about the time I turned out the lights to go to sleep.  Their favorite event seemed to be "rolling nuts across the ceiling, under the insulation."  I tried all sorts of traps to catch them, but failed.  A strobe light is what drove them out. I guess that would wreak havoc on their eyes at night....

 

Glad you found your cricket quickly.  Put it on a size 10 light wire hook tied to your favorite ultralight rig and feed it to a big bluegill!

 

Tight lines,

Bob

Did you use it as bait? I hear they make great topwater lures.

I left it on a toothpick outside my front door to serve as a warning to all other crickets.

When I read the title my first thought was smoke alarm, then cricket!  Mice squeak and then usually only when in the mouth of a cat.

I was going to say cricket just from reading the description. They like to get into our house and I can't get the dang dog to develop a taste for them (my last dog loved eating bugs). Thankfully the population of wolf spiders is pretty good this year around the house so the crickets aren't very numerous. 

Thankfully the population of wolf spiders is pretty good this year around the house so the crickets aren't very numerous. 

 

Same here, but I'm not sure which I dislike more...  those big spiders give me the creeps!   I was in the basement taking some laundry out of the washer and putting it in the dryer yesterday morning when I looked down and saw a jumbo-sized wolf spider next to my bare foot.  I don't think there's many animals with a more sinister look.

 

Tight lines,

Bob

Um, I will take crickets over the wolf spider any day..

Um, I will take crickets over the wolf spider any day..

I don't like spiders either, but as long as they're outside eating bugs like they're suppose to, we're cool. 

I had a giant racoon make her way into my ceiling..had 4 babies. This happened above my bed, in a cathedral ceiling...and racoons are nocturnal. It took a couple nights before we called pest control. We had NO clue what was up there..quite the surprise.

http://www.jpwildlifecontrol.com/services/raccoons-control.shtml

The bottom pic is one I took of the pest guy taking a baby out of my ceiling, and thats my review I left for the company.

I had a giant racoon make her way into my ceiling..had 4 babies. This happened above my bed, in a cathedral ceiling...and racoons are nocturnal. It took a couple nights before we called pest control. We had NO clue what was up there..quite the surprise.

That's a rather odd fetish you have. Do you like to watch or actually participate?

That's a rather odd fetish you have. Do you like to watch or actually participate?

Just listen..the really odd thing is my son was born 9 months later.

And my son is nocturnal. We named him Rocky.

I used to live in an old farmhouse with bats in the third story. There was no practical way to keep them out.

I watched them come home one night. They crawled in between the boards of the roof that had a 1/2" to 3/4" space. That was directly under the slate. I can`t imagine how hot it got in the summer.

 

We left the attic door open in the heat of summer for ventilation and some time the bats would fly around the downstairs. We basically left each other alone except for one night that one was doing laps around our  bed. My wife insisted that was over the line so I got up  and dispatched it.

 

I caught a skunk with a leg hold trap inside the basement. That got real ugly before it was over. 

I don't mind bugs and these little critters so long as they're outside. I even feed the spider on my back porch sometimes.

Catch22 having a skunk inside sounds awful

I used to live in an old farmhouse with bats in the third story. There was no practical way to keep them out.

I watched them come home one night. They crawled in between the boards of the roof that had a 1/2" to 3/4" space. That was directly under the slate. I can`t imagine how hot it got in the summer.

 

We left the attic door open in the heat of summer for ventilation and some time the bats would fly around the downstairs. We basically left each other alone except for one night that one was doing laps around our  bed. My wife insisted that was over the line so I got up  and dispatched it.

 

I caught a skunk with a leg hold trap inside the basement. That got real ugly before it was over.

I hate bats! I've had problems with bats getting in my house off and on for years. Too many rabid bats found in this area to not take it seriously.

At a different house with aluminum siding,I was taking the shutters off for repainting. Two shutters off with two bats under each one. My wife was footing the ladder til the critters flew at her. I was laughing so hard I almost came off the ladder.

 

At the same house we were tormented with chipmonks getting under the hood  of cars and damaging wires. They cost my son  and myself $150 each.

Crickets means good luck .you think a cricket is loud u should hear a katydid