Insect sound effects from the tiny to the deafening. Crickets tick away on a summer night in Europe, and cicadas scream through the midday heat in Southeast Asia. Bees too. Some recordings isolate a single chirp, while others are full night ambiences where the insects are the whole landscape.
Libraries
125
Publishers
65
Formats
Mono, stereo, M/S, surround, ambisonic
Sample rates
44.1 to 192 kHz
Licence
Royalty-free for commercial work
Price range
$5 to $699
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Cricket and cicada sound effects spanning nocturnal meadow and mountain valley soundscapes, bee hive interiors, bumblebee, hornet and butterfly wing flap solos, delivered as RAW 24-bit files.
Rainforest ambience recordings, offering nearly nine minutes of insect sound effects including cicada hums, cricket chirps, and various detailed jungle chorus elements.
A comprehensive collection of 160 insect and arachnid sound effects, featuring realistic creature vocals, movements, and attacks in three sizes, delivered in high-quality WAV and MP3 formats.
Expertly recorded wildlife footstep sound effects captured across diverse terrains, providing authentic movement sounds from various animal species for documentary productions.
Comprehensive collection of mutant insect sound effects featuring eight species, with detailed wing movements, swarms, and loops, enhanced through specialized audio software for cinematic impact.
Fantasy ambience sound effects featuring 130+ loops with separate stems, covering forests, deserts, swamps, caves, dungeons, cemeteries, lava, and harbors, delivered at 48kHz 24-bit.
Ethereal jungle sound effects across 400 files in 3rd-order ambisonics, binaural, stereo and mono, covering day and night biomes, caverns, creature vocalizations, and small creature movements at 96kHz/24-bit.
Atenas, Costa Rica mountain town sound effects recorded in first-order ambisonics and binaural across a full 24-hour cycle, covering plaza life, church bells, bird song, tropical storms, rivers, and nocturnal insects.
Woodside, California forest sound effects capturing wind swells through the canopy, leaf rustle, tree creaking, and active or sparse birdsong across mid-day, late afternoon, and evening, at 96 kHz.
Temperate rainforest wetland sound effects capturing Pacific chorus frog choruses, dawn chorus birdsong from song sparrow, Pacific wren and robin, and wind in canopy across dawn, afternoon, evening and night in 96kHz/24-bit.
Karst rainforest sound effects recorded in Khao Sok and Khlong Pae, Thailand, capturing insect drones, cicadas, birdsong, bamboo creaks, rivers, and canopy wind in AB, ORTF, binaural, and AmbiX formats.
Bali wave sound effects recorded on reefs, rock shelves, sand, and inside a sea cave with MKH8050 mid-side, capturing breakers, water laps, sand sizzle, shore birds, and ocean roar across high and low tide.
Tropical jungle sound effects featuring 51 ambiences recorded at 96 kHz across Sri Lanka, Costa Rica, Martinique, Thailand, the Philippines, and Brazil, capturing birds, crickets, frogs, rain, wind, and mangrove environments.
Costa Rica nature sound effects captured in ambisonic format across four ecosystems, featuring rivers, waterfalls, ocean waves, rainforest, and cloud forest with ambiX, 7.1.2 Atmos, and binaural renders at 96kHz/24-bit.
Costa Rica rainforest sound effects featuring 50 ambisonic recordings across Caribbean coastline, mangrove, and interior jungle ecosystems capturing howler monkeys, birds, frogs, insects, rain, and wind at 96kHz/24-bit with binaural and 7.1.2 Atmos renders.
Rolling thunder sound effects featuring close strikes, distant rumbles, and varied rain ambiences captured across suburban, rural, and mountain forest environments using Sennheiser MKH microphones.
Village ambience sound effects recorded across 20 rural locations in Serbia, capturing natural soundscapes including birdsong, dogs, cows, distant tractors, insects, and wind in trees at 32-bit/192kHz.
West African rural ambience sound effects featuring village life, bird chirps, crickets, cicadas, frogs, cockcrows, and nighttime insect beds recorded across farmland and riverside settings at 96kHz.
This collection of 709 raw, unprocessed vocalization sound effects contains clean growls, hisses, yelps, and croaks for designing custom creature and monster characters.
A library of school ambience sound effects with classroom room tones, quiet hallways, and aisles, featuring integrated environmental details like distant trains, birds, and light traffic.
Insects are how a sound designer says what time it is and where. Crickets mean night and cicadas mean heat. A single fly buzzing round a room says something has gone off. Recordings of a lone Cricket or Cicada work as close detail, and full ambiences fill a whole field. A Jungle needs a dense insect bed underneath everything else, which is often the hardest part to get right. Fantasy designers pitch insect clicks down for giant bugs.
