The family guy episode did a good job of eli5 when Peter took his pet cricket to the vet. He apologized to the waiting room because his cricket has restless leg syndrome
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a cricket has hairy legs so it can make the sound. I also have hairy legs and make the sound all the time. something must be wrong with your legs. are they not hairy?
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My questions is, why would crickets evolve to make such loud noises, you would think making so much noise would give away their location to predators
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Is it true that a cricket’s chirp frequency (number of chirps per minute) is a derivative of the outside temperature?
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I recall a city dweller saying he feared crickets, since any insect that made that much noise must be huge and probably dangerous..
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You know I’m gonna be honest, I asked this question when I was 5, and my dad answered “it uses it’s legs.” And my 5 year old brain decided that was a sufficient explanation.
The people on this sub are much better at ELI5ing than my dad was.
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The cricket rubs two combs together. The combs make a sound; the vibrating wings serve as an amplifier.
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Most people already answered this, but a fun fact about cricket chirps is that you can use them to approximate the temperature outside. Count the number of chirps in 15 s, then ad 37.
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Also, what are the rules to cricket? The sport and the insect are so mysterious.
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