Friday, September 6, 2013
Japanese crickets
Two nights ago, we heard insects chirping outside our front door. That's nothing new; we often hear cicadas, and sometimes they fly up to our sixth-floor apartment (and last week, a cicada landed on the railing outside my office window-THAT was loud). What WAS new, was being able to actually see the cricket while it was chirping. We saw two sitting on the fluorescent bulb just outside the apartment door, next to the elevator. I thought at first that they would run away if we got close, but I grabbed my phone, started to take a video, and it just kept singing! It was quite amazing to actually be able to see the wings vibrating to make the sound. The lighting is a bit strange (aiming a camera directly at a fluorescent light doesn't usually produce very good effects...), but you can see and hear the cricket.
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