Popping Noises from Woods??

[clemsonfor]

Those you hear or not southern pine beetles that you hear they are other secondary bark beetles that move in after the tree is dead, a tree can still be green and dead. Think about if you cut a pine limb off or it falls down it will stay green on the ground and healty looking for 2-3 weeks the same is true for a tree. Its more of a crunch -chrunch-chrunch-chrunch pause crunch-crunch-crunch.

 

[yooper1]

Just as long as you do not hear "crunch crunch crunch , BURP!"

 

[yooper1]

And if you do hear "crunch crunch crunch , BURP!"

hopefully you have some Jack Links jerky to leave there and then run fast and far away.

Don't mess with Sasquatch

 

[Ken]

We had a large pecan tree that a storm split lengh wise it would groan and snap in light breeze. Thought that by putting a chain around tree about 20 feet high it would grow back so then groaning and rattleing of chain was differnnt sound. Tornado put it out of it missery and now have good pecan lumber to build with.
ken

 

[Pilot]

I'm not sure I have ever heard beetles inside a tree and I have gotten close enough to measure diameters on thousands of trees. I can't imagine how a little bitty beetle would create a popping sound you could hear from a distance. Bark beetles just burrow under the bark. Flat headed borers make larvae make elliptical holes in the wood and I suppose now and then might weaken the wood enough to allow a chunk to break or crack, but there would have to a huge number of borers working their little teeth off to lead to popping noises you could hear frequently, and that's a stretch.

I still think it's some kind of critter, hundreds of times larger than beetles. Squirrels dropping acorns sounds like a plausible explanation, but that depends on what they land on.

 

[deepNdirt]

I'm not sure I have ever heard beetles inside a tree and I have gotten close enough to measure diameters on thousands of trees. I can't imagine how a little bitty beetle would create a popping sound you could hear from a distance. Bark beetles just burrow under the bark. Flat headed borers make larvae make elliptical holes in the wood and I suppose now and then might weaken the wood enough to allow a chunk to break or crack, but there would have to a huge number of borers working their little teeth off to lead to popping noises you could hear frequently, and that's a stretch.

I still think it's some kind of critter, hundreds of times larger than beetles. Squirrels dropping acorns sounds like a plausible explanation, but that depends on what they land on.

You can trust me when I say I have heard them and seen first hand the damage these Little bitty bugs can do, Sorry don't mean to try and hijack this post, but here is an article of the Pine beetle outbreak over B.C. as well as this country, I thought the B.C. explaned the problem best, So we can be sure when enough of them gather in a Forest they can be heard from a good ways away,

and a couple of picture of what they can do, as you can see is a bit more than taking the bark off in a small area of the tree,
CBC News In Depth: Science

 

[Pilot]

Yup, beetle damage can be pretty bad and I have seen it myself. On one of the forests I worked on they put the entire forest cut allocation on my district because of the beetle outbreak. And it's been a problem forever; it's part of the life cycle of the lodgepole pine. They go after the healthiest trees, the opposite of most bugs. So the largest trees get killed first, which means you don't get large lodgepoles like you do ponderosas or white pines (yes they do go for other pines, but they like lodgepoles best).

The lodgepole's strategy in response is to produce cones that open when heated, so when the forest gets devastated by the beetles and the area burns, the cones open up and the area reforests. Unfortunately, this process carries no advantage for trees that might be beetle resistant, so the cycle continues.

Yes, I have seen them and the damage they can cause. They just haven't talked to me.

 

[Gary51]

You don't have a tin roofed barn down there somewhere do you? The heating and cooling will cause continue popping sounds.

 

[keegs]

Somone already mentioned wisteria. The wooded area next to us has been taken over with wisteria. They make a long seed pod in late summer and fall. The seeds are about the size of a large lima bean and the pod is between 10 and 14 inches long. Popping sounds in autumn and in winter from the wisteria seeds bursting out of their pods is quite familiar to me.

Popping Wisteria Seeds Pods! | Master Gardeners of Santa Clara County

 

[teg]

That was me! I was changing the oil in my cars yesterday afternoon and right before the sun sets, it starts up... can hear it 3-400 ft away. Thought about how I could record it to play back here!?!?