<img src="http://www.lamma.com.hk/forum/images/flora-fauna/insect-shrill.jpg" border=1 align=left hspace=10>This insect has been keeping people awake in the last few weeks, making very shrill and loud noises all night, forcing us to close the windows. This very poor photo is the best I could get so far.

They're at least as big as a small finger and I assume they're some subtropical variety of cicadas, making this noise by rubbing their wings together during their mating season?

Does anybody have better photos and more info?

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This looks like the Large Brown Cicada - there should be some good opportunities for photos - there seem to be plenty of them around at the moment. Sometimes they can be quite deafening if one or two start making a noise at close quarters.

According to the insect book, the other common HK cicada, the Spotted Black Cicada, starts making a noise from the end of March and continues to the end of April, then there may be a breif period of peace before the large Brown starts up in early May until the end of July. I didn't notice that happening this year.

This is why god gave us the BB-gun...

Government planted some new type of tress here a few years back and each summer, this type of cicada gather in groups....kind of rare for this type
Sorry about the GIF format, the original JPG is in H Res and too big to attach