Rich County Reaper | 1938-04-29 | Page 3 | Crickets and Locusts

crickets and locusts A cricket does his chirping by rubbing his wings together theres a large cricket in africa which amplifies his chirping by digging burrows in the earth it chirps into these and can be heard for nearly a mile even more strange says the washington post is the flying gooseberry locust which beats its own drum the drum is its abdomen which is almost hollow by tapping it with a leg the insect makes itself heard some beetles talk in a sort of telegraphic code with the tip of their bodies they rap very quickly on the surface under them producing a distinct tapping