Spring Field Crickets Singing
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Many of you in the mid-latitudes of eastern North America have no doubt noticed that the chirping of crickets can be heard again. These are the Spring field crickets, Gryllus veletis, that have over wintered as nymphs and have just recently molted into their adult form. Their happy caroling can be heard from mid-morning well into the night. It is a wonder repose to sit quietly and listen to the crickets chirp allowing the cares of the day to melt away into the distance.
Go out this evening and sit, calm your mind and listen to the songs of these first singers on the scene.
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Lang Elliott and myself Wil Hershberger are pleased that there is a great deal of interest in our book, “The Songs of Insects,” by Houghton-Mifflin Co. We hope to generate a new aesthetic in North America for the appreciation of the singing insects and the choruses that they produce.
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Wil and Lang
we think that this is a very cool website and we were looking for the name of this type of cricket so your site helped a lot!
wow!
i found your site while hunting these little critters (identifying an interloper), and have stayed for a while, just listening and learning!! this is a wonderful site; thank you so much for providing it!!
~christi
virginia beach, VA