Cricket chirp

Boy, oh, boy! A whole month of nothing but cricket chirps and cob webs on this blog. I feel sadly pathetic. Behind the scenes at the Ugly Duckling have been quite tumultuous: crazy work, my Dad went in for surgery and rehab and chemo, my sister had a baby (a beautiful little boy!) and an emergency dnc just a week later, my parents are moving, we have kittens, school started again, work's been kicking my butt, everybody around me seems to be going stir crazy over the election and I've been…

Native Americans and ancient Chinese culture believe that crickets are a symbol of luck. They are wise and bear good fortune. Jim Wilson, a composer, recorded crickets chirping from his backyard and for some reason decided to slow down the recording. The result was an amazing track that sounds like a choir of humans singing. […]

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Long-horned Orthopteran. These are Snowy Tree Crickets. Note the "crinkly" forewings on the male (his nose makers). Mildly amusing fact: you can use the male’s mating call as a thermometer. Count the number of chirps in 13 sec, add 40, and you’ve got ambient temp in degrees F

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Crickets chirp incessantly at night but stop the moment you approach. Here is why they do it and how to sneak up on a cricket.

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Beautiful book, if you can get a hold of a copy: Bashō and His Interpreters (Makoto Ueda, Stanford University Press, 1992). Listen to how it works: • Top of each page,...

Cricket tattoo! Few reasons: 1. A Cricket in Times Square was my favorite book as a kid 2. I love hearing crickets chirp at night. It's calming. 3. Crickets are supposed to be good luck and attract prosperity...which I could definitely use.

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When a bizarre “sonic attack” was reported in Cuba last year, experts were at a loss to explain the occurrence. However, scientists now believe that crickets