A Field Guide to the North Side of Old Mill Hill, Atlantic Mine, MI
Archive for the ‘Orthoptera’ Category.
Here’s one that probably everybody in North America has at least heard, if not seen: field crickets. I recorded this sound clip on June 17, which was when the spring field crickets (Gryllus veletis) started singing[1].
Chirp of Spring Field Cricket (.wav file)
While cleaning up some stuff in the basement, out of the corner of my eye I spotted something bounding up in the air. And by “bounding”, I mean getting up about two feet off the floor. So I went to investigate, and found this:
Last week, I was out helping S_ drag a body into the woods[1], when she called out, “I just found a really cool looking grasshopper for you . . . hey, it bit me!”
So I said, “Is it green, with really long legs?”
