Photography And Half-Thoughts By Mitchell Hegman

...because some of it is pretty and some of it is not.

Thursday, June 12, 2014

Field Crickets, Odd Facts


—A field cricket’s ears are located just below the knees of its front legs.
—You can estimate the outside temperature using the frequency of the male cricket’s chirping.  If you count the number of chirps in 15 seconds and then add 37 to your count, you will have a close measure of the temperature in degrees Fahrenheit.
—Crickets may eat holes in fabric “soiled” with food or may eat through fabric just to “get to the other side.”
—If given a choice, crickets will live in cracks of earth, stone, or cement.
—Female crickets are mute.
--Mitchell Hegman

No comments:

Post a Comment