Questions About Crickets

waybackjack

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Sep 28, 2001, 10:34:59 AM9/28/01

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Do lady crickets make noise? I have a quiet cricket living in my
basement weight room. Is it just the male cricket who rubs his feet
together to make noise? Or do I simply have a mute cricket?

Thanks,
Bro Jack

Jaime

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Sep 30, 2001, 3:56:18 AM9/30/01

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I found this on a Google search. You apparently, according to this
article (copied and pasted below) have a female cricket. Females are
silent.

The field cricket is one of the most common household accidental invader
insect
pests. There are several species of field crickets ranging
in size from 1/4 to 3/4 inch,
but the best known is the black field cricket, a large,
shiny black insect. Like other
accidental invaders, field crickets spend most of their
life outdoors where they feed,
grow, develop and reproduce. Only during a limited portion
of their life cycle do
they wander indoors by mistake and create an annoyance.

Field crickets spend the winter as eggs laid in the soil.
These eggs hatch in late
spring or early summer, and tiny immature crickets called
nymphs begin to feed on a
variety of succulent grasses and weeds. The nymphs look
like the adults except for
their smaller size and the absence of wings. Nymphs
develop into adults within
approximately 90 days. The adults mate and lay eggs in
late summer before
succumbing to old age or freezing temperatures in the
fall.

Chirping, one of the hallmarks of crickets, is done only
by the males as a way to
attract the females of their own species. Chirping is
produced by rubbing the wings
together.

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Vicky

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Sep 30, 2001, 9:51:39 PM9/30/01

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"waybackjack" <broj...@my-deja.com> wrote in message
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I think the male cricket makes noise to wake up the sleeping female to ask
her for sex.

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os...@techie.com

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Oct 1, 2001, 4:59:00 AM10/1/01

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>
> "waybackjack" <broj...@my-deja.com> wrote in message
> news:aed0dbaa.01092...@posting.google.com...
> > Do lady crickets make noise? I have a quiet cricket living in my
> > basement weight room. Is it just the male cricket who rubs his feet
> > together to make noise? Or do I simply have a mute cricket?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Bro Jack
>
> I think the male cricket makes noise to wake up the sleeping female to ask
> her for sex.

Bwahahahaha!

Jaime

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Oct 1, 2001, 8:58:42 AM10/1/01

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os...@techie.com wrote:

> > I think the male cricket makes noise to wake up the sleeping female to ask
> > her for sex.

Funny..same thing happens here with my boyfriend!! LOL!!

gareth

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Oct 20, 2001, 2:50:47 AM10/20/01

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