Tree making popping noises?

[Pilgrim]

Are any of you familiar with what type of trees are making noises that sound like really loud Rice Krispies? And don't tell me "a tree that's falling" . It almost sounds like some sort of seed pod is bursting/cracking. While walking tonight, I heard this sound coming from several trees in the neighborhood. It was too dark to see what the trees looked like.

 

[Miguel Cervantes]

This time of year Wisteria vines will disperse their seeds. It is almost like you are being shot at by a pellet gun. You will hear the pop and if the seed is coming your way you will here the whirring noise of it going by. They can send their seeds a good 35 or 40 feet during this process.

Did you happen to notice if there were any Wisteria vines growing up in those trees?

 

[280bst]

That happened to me once at night I shined my double magnum ultra 200 million candle power flash light [deer can't see it] up the tree and it turned out it was a bunch of Possums popping double extra butter popcorn but sometimes it what M.C. said Armadillo's like to pop the Wisteria seeds also

 

[shakey gizzard]

Lots of seed pods are set with a hair trigger! As dry as it's been, no tell'n!

 

[Geestring]

Sometimes you can hear termites in pine trees if its quiet enough.

 

[Dbender]

I second the wisteria after closer inspection.

 

[matthewsman]

not termites

Pine beetles...
Snick..sniick..snick..

Dollars to donuts that's what you heard.

 

[Deadringer]

Witch Hazel seeds pods will also "pop" and shoot seeds several feet to several yards.

 

[1gr8bldr]

I thought a monkey was following me in the tree tops on my way out of the stand the other evening. Funny you brought this up. It spooked me until I realized that it was not just one tree.

 

[Mako22]

Pine beetles

 

[EAGLE EYE 444]

I agree with Pine beetles. I have sat in my deer stand and heard numerous "pops" all around in the pines. It sounded like a constant popping, cracking sounds and it took me quite a while to figure out just what it was. Several times I thought that it was a deer coming in close to my stand.

To get revenge on these beetles, just put the wood into a hot fire and then listen to those suckers really "POP". They explode in the hot fire like raw eggs in a microwave!!!

 

[NCHillbilly]

The kind of tree that has flying squirrels sitting in it gnawing on stuff.

 

[j_seph]

Pine beetles...
Snick..sniick..snick..

Dollars to donuts that's what you heard.

What I was thinking

 

[Pilgrim]

I'm a bit late replying, but it is definitely Wisteria vines.

 

[reflexman]

pine beetles or carpenter bees I had a big pine making that noise n its dead now.

 

[model88_308]

I'm a bit late replying, but it is definitely Wisteria vines.

Late, Ya say?......

 

[NE GA Pappy]

I'm a bit late replying, but it is definitely Wisteria vines.

nah. once every 7 years is plenty to post in a thread.

 

[1eyefishing]

Wisteria will kill those trees by the time you post here again!