Where have all the crickets gone this year

She ate them.

I'm being serious something is very strange going on.

They all came over ta Texas,please take them back!

Very interesting...also no frogs croaking here in WA.

and birds that chirp all night long. they dont do that, its the fast track to getting eaten at night. (they arent doing it tonight here)

Last year here the fireflies appeared in Feb. This year, they didn't arrive until the first week in April. Our Bradford pear trees bloomed late, but went to full leaf like THAT.

No fleas yet, but that might be later in the year. Our dogs don't have quite the tick problem they usually do.

And, yes, birds singing at night, lots of them.

fascinating

There are four types of cricket song: The calling song attracts females and repels other males, and is fairly loud. The courting song is used when a female cricket is near, and is a very quiet song. An aggressive song is triggered by chemoreceptors on the antennae that detect the near presence of another male cricket and a copulatory song is produced for a brief period after a successful mating.

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Crickets have relatively powerful jaws, and several species have been known to bite humans.

Better watch out dude.

They are hiding under the cubicles, shaking in fear from what they just saw through their infrared telescope.

And so it begins...

I think all the animals are dying

I bought them ALL to feed my huge collection of bearded dragons, sorry. We are in for a quiet spring.

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Did you know that you can tell the temperature by counting the chirps of a cricket? It's true! Here's the formula:

To convert cricket chirps to degrees Fahrenheit, count number of chirps in 14 seconds then add 40 to get temperature.

Example: 30 chirps + 40 = 70° F

To convert cricket chirps to degrees Celsius, count number of chirps in 25 seconds, divide by 3, then add 4 to get temperature.

Example: 48 chirps /(divided by) 3 + 4 = 20° C

These instructions weren't clear enough, my penis is stuck in the vacuum cleaner

Same here - they used to make quite a noise, and there were loads of toads around - and bees - all gone or very very few now. Climate's got colder round here, also crop spraying with new pesticides that kills the good as well as the bad. This is the start of the breakdown of the food chain. Soylent Green, anyone?

We have no crickets this year?

Smoky Mountains Tennessee

Bugger, that was gonna be my line!!!!!!!!

Same here in WV too, very quiet at nite!

They like it dry, just guessing not a good year for them.

Come to think of it no Cicatas either. OP is right, nights are quiet this summer

The moon crickets are all packed up on buses headed to Florida to riot.

now theres a movie you cant find anymore! i have tried,but its like it disappeared

South Carolina here... No bees, no frogs, have only heard a few birds this spring. Its like everything has died.

mtns around Allentown Pa here
quiet... i do hear the bats
lots of birds during the day
no crickets! none
strange, indeed good observation OP

I saw a Jurassic Cricket. It was ginormous.

I also live in Georgia. Just north of Atlanta and the crickets are alive and well here. They're loud as hell.

In South Dakota, no crickets, no grasshoppers, no butterflies and the birds are singing at night! I have never in my 42 years heard the song birds at night! Wood tics are more plentiful then ever.

Strange indeed!

I've seen a lot of dead bees on the ground though.