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- It was a stifling evening in July and Matt Phelps was out for a stroll, when a piercing, whirring noise stopped him in his tracks.
- As an ecologist, Phelps knows his fauna – and he could think of no UK creature that could emit such a sound.
- “It was like the classic sound effect of a cricket in a film, a beeping sort of little trilling sound,” said Phelps, who works at Knepp Estate in West Sussex.
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- It was a stifling evening in July and Matt Phelps was out for a stroll, when a piercing, whirring noise stopped him in his tracks.
- As an ecologist, Phelps knows his fauna – and he could think of no UK creature that could emit such a sound.
- “It was like the classic sound effect of a cricket in a film, a beeping sort of little trilling sound,” said Phelps, who works at Knepp Estate in West Sussex.
Sources: Guardian