Yes, some insects in the desert make noise: cicadas, crickets, for example.
it is the cicadas
cicadas
Cicadas shed their skin and it looks like a brown thin skeleton. Cicadas make a funny noise that is often confused with grasshoppers.
Cicadas
there noise helps them talk to each other
Your ears are sensitive, when they pass close to your ear, they do not make a noise, your ear simply picks up the sound of their vibrating wings and it is very high pitched because of the speed at which they move to stay airborne.
Apparently, only male cicadas make sounds.
cicadas buzz because they love hot weather so they make the zzzzzz sound when it is warm
No. With the exception of a few unlucky ones, cicadas do not drown in thunderstorms. If a simple storm was all it took to kill of cicadas, they would have gone extinct long ago.
The noise that crickets and cicadas make at night is generally a mating activity. It is likely that there is little that can be done to stop it. It is possible that shining a bright light in the area where are will stop them briefly.
If bearings go bad on a alternator/ will make a grindind noise or long squilling noise.. but if only electronic's inside alternator are damage no noise wil be heard