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	<title>The Backyard Arthropod Project &#187; Orthoptera</title>
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	<description>A Field Guide to the North Side of Old Mill Hill, Atlantic Mine, MI</description>
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		<title>St. Urho&#8217;s Day Bonus &#8211; Drowned Grasshoppers</title>
		<link>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2012/03/16/st-urhos-day-bonus-drowned-grasshoppers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2012 10:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Eisele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a legend that there is a legend [1] that St. Urho once saved the Finnish grape crop[2] by killing a plague of grasshoppers by either striking them dead or driving them into the sea. He is reputed to have attacked them with his pitchfork while crying out, &#8220;&#8221;Heinäsirkka, heinäsirkka, mene täältä hiiteen&#8221; which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Allard&#8217;s Ground Cricket</title>
		<link>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2011/11/19/small-black-singing-cricket/</link>
		<comments>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2011/11/19/small-black-singing-cricket/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Nov 2011 10:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Eisele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This little black cricket was captured along with a bunch of other bugs with a sweep-net at the beginning of August 2011. His intended fate, along with the other larger contents of the sweep net, was to be food for the praying mantis that we raised from an egg case[1]. He was pretty wily, though, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Green-Striped Grasshopper</title>
		<link>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2010/05/22/green-striped-grasshopper/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 May 2010 10:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Eisele</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[March]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As it turns out, Aesop was wrong[1] Up until this year, I had been under the impression that grasshoppers all laid their eggs and died in the fall, like the fable says, and the eggs didn&#8217;t hatch out until spring. What a fool I was. Because on May 2[2], I found this fully-winged adult grasshopper [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Domesticated Crickets and the Cone Macro Flash Concentrator</title>
		<link>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2010/05/15/domesticated-crickets-and-the-cone-flash-concentrator/</link>
		<comments>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2010/05/15/domesticated-crickets-and-the-cone-flash-concentrator/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 May 2010 10:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Eisele</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Apparatus and Methods]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arthropods]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crickets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Insects]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[May]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[While there are insects involved in this posting, it&#8217;s actually more about a new, low-cost method I&#8217;ve come up with for better flash macrophotography. I&#8217;m very pleased with the way it works. So, here I am with a digital SLR and a macro lens (both bought used to keep the cost manageable), and some domesticated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Clear-Winged Grasshopper</title>
		<link>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2010/01/23/clear-winged-grasshopper/</link>
		<comments>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2010/01/23/clear-winged-grasshopper/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 10:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Eisele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sam caught this one in the yard on July 30. She kept it in a box with some grass to eat for about a day, but ultimately decided that it would be better off if she let it go. The distinguishing features on it are the black patch on the shoulders just above the front [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carolina Grasshopper</title>
		<link>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2009/09/11/carolina-grasshopper/</link>
		<comments>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2009/09/11/carolina-grasshopper/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 01:10:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Eisele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sam caught this grasshopper in the yard, close to the house. She then brought it inside where she kept picking it up, letting it jump out of her hands, and then laughing uproariously as it flew partway across the room. Then, after it was tired enough that it didn&#8217;t bother jumping anymore, she built a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two-Striped Grasshopper</title>
		<link>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2008/10/25/two-striped-grasshopper/</link>
		<comments>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2008/10/25/two-striped-grasshopper/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Oct 2008 10:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Eisele</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Getting by with a little help from my friends. We have something a bit different this week, a most excellent picture of a grasshopper: What is different about this? Well, while it is in fact a local grasshopper specimen that was found near our property, this is the first case where I didn&#8217;t take the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Field Crickets</title>
		<link>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2008/07/05/field-crickets/</link>
		<comments>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2008/07/05/field-crickets/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2008 10:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Eisele</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[April]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;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]. cricketsound2008-6-17-006 There&#8217;s actually two very similar species of field crickets around here, they look the same, sound the same, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Camel Cricket</title>
		<link>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2008/05/10/camel-cricket/</link>
		<comments>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2008/05/10/camel-cricket/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2008 10:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Eisele</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arthropods]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crickets]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[May]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8220;bounding&#8221;, I mean getting up about two feet off the floor. So I went to investigate, and found this: OK, so this is clearly something in the order Orthoptera &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Katydid</title>
		<link>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2007/09/16/correct-but-for-the-wrong-reason/</link>
		<comments>http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2007/09/16/correct-but-for-the-wrong-reason/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Sep 2007 20:36:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Eisele</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arthropods]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[opportunistic carnivore]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, I was out helping S_ drag a body into the woods[1], when she called out, &#8220;I just found a really cool looking grasshopper for you . . . hey, it bit me!&#8221; So I said, &#8220;Is it green, with really long legs?&#8221; And she replies, &#8220;How did you know?&#8221; Well, as it turns [...]]]></description>
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