What sound does a cricket make?

NicoBas · Post by **NicoBas** » Sat Oct 16, 2004 9:32 pm

Dogs bark, birds chirp and bees buzz... Does anyone know sound a cricket makes?!
Cheers, Nicholas

NicoBas · Post by **NicoBas** » Sat Oct 16, 2004 9:41 pm

Sorry, typo! Does any one know what sound a cricket makes?

Lorikeet · Post by **Lorikeet** » Sat Oct 16, 2004 10:23 pm

I thought crickets chirped too. Hmmm

NicoBas · Post by **NicoBas** » Sat Oct 16, 2004 10:43 pm

So I heard from someone elsewhere!
Thanks a lot! Cheers.

Harzer · Post by **Harzer** » Sat Oct 16, 2004 10:53 pm

Cricket makes me go zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Harzer

NicoBas · Post by **NicoBas** » Sat Oct 16, 2004 11:11 pm

Yeah... but that's the sound YOU make!

Stephen Jones · Post by **Stephen Jones** » Sun Oct 17, 2004 8:20 pm

The sounds Australian cricketers make would never get past the censor.

Harzer · Post by **Harzer** » Mon Oct 18, 2004 8:07 am

Those sounds are known as sledging.

Harzer

Sally Olsen · Post by **Sally Olsen** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 10:08 pm

I thought a cricket sang.

Lorikeet · Post by **Lorikeet** » Wed Oct 20, 2004 10:19 pm

Just for fun...
http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/mysteries/cricket.html

Note, at the bottom of the page are some links for crickets singing, so, like birds, I guess they do both.

Andrew Patterson · Post by **Andrew Patterson** » Tue Oct 26, 2004 7:44 pm

When I first saw the question, I thought that crickets "chirp" the site you listed seems to use that term more than "sing".

I think it's cicadas that "sing" more than "chirp", but I think we need the input of some Australians here who, if my general knowlege serves me right, seem to have an awful lot more of the critters than evereyone else.

When "cricket" refers to the sound of leather on willow, I think the sound is "whack", by the way

Harzer · Post by **Harzer** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 12:01 am

I guess crickets don't broadcast the temperature report, woo or fight when it's cold. This may also go for cricketers.

Australian crickets give the temp by chirping x times in 15 seconds and then adding 3.

Harzer