Can anyone tell me the name for the sound grasshoppers make?

Question

i.e The cows were mooing, and the grasshoppers were _____ ?

Answer 1

In spite of all the people telling you "chirp", the proper word is "chirring".

Plenty of dictionaries will confirm this. See cite below.

Answer 2

Grasshoppers, and Orthoptera in general, are well known for their behavior, particularly the sounds that they produce. Sound production and display flights in grasshoppers are behaviors associated with mating and territoriality. Grasshoppers do not sing or chirp like crickets and katydids because they do not have a file and scraper mechanism on their tegmina. Grasshoppers produce sound by two mechanisms called stridulation and crepitation. Stridulation occurs when a grasshopper rubs the insides of the hind femora against the abdomen or tegmina to produce a scraping or chirping sound; most grasshoppers produce sound by this method. The loud sounds produced by Syrbula and Bootettix are good examples of stridulation. Crepitation is sound produced by rapidly flexing the hind wings in flight producing crackling and snapping sounds. Crepitation is limited to the band-winged (Oedipodinae) and a few slant-faced (Gomphocerinae) grasshoppers. The crackling sounds produced by Arphia and Trimerotropis in flight are good examples of crepitation. Circotettix rabula Rehn and Hebard is one of the loudest crepitating grasshoppers in New Mexico, producing loud snapping and rattling sounds. Stridulation and crepitation sounds differ among different species, and like bird calls, can be used to identify different species of grasshoppers.

Answer 3

chirp

Answer 4

singing or chirping or rasping

Answer 5

chirping?

Answer 6

chirping.


Even though technically they're vibrating.

Answer 7

chirping...