There's several bugs of the same species in my house, and the past few nights (they only seem to be active for a few hours around dusk) they've been making a two part creaking noise. I've seen them, but I can't get a picture at all. They look an awful lot like antlions, about the size of a short dragonfly except with their wings folded flat over their backs, and with really heavy legs and antennae.
I'm relatively sure it's an antlion but I can't find any information on antlions making noise at night. I'm in Maine, and most of them are about an inch and half long. They're black with clear wings, I don't see any spots or patterns.
They also seem to have a weird defence mechanism where if you blow them or brush them away they jump up in the air and fall to the ground.
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