Interesting Fact?
By celticeagle
@celticeagle (189793)
Boise, Idaho
October 2, 2022 4:06pm CST
I was doing my usual wandering around the internet today and found this interesting fact:
Back in 1897 scientist Amos Dolbear published an article titled "The Cricket as a Thermometer". This article noted that there was a correlation between the surrounding area's temperature and the rate at which a cricket will chirp. A cricket's muscles contract to produce the chirping and this is based on chemical reactions. Higher temperatures increase its chirps and lower temps decrease it because their reaction is slower.
In converting cricket chirp to degrees Fahrenheit simply count the number of chirps that occur in 14 seconds and add 40.
I wonder if that works. Anyone want to try it and let me know?
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@DaddyEvil (174208)
• United States
13 Oct 22
There are crickets around here but I'm not going to catch one and figure it out. 
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@celticeagle (189793)
• Boise, Idaho
14 Oct 22
@DaddyEvil .......They even show the arithmetic.
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@DaddyEvil (174208)
• United States
13 Oct 22
@celticeagle The experiment has already been done by at least one universary.
The experiment has already been done by at least one universary.https://entomology.unl.edu/k12/crickets/temperature.htm#:~:text=The%20simplest%20method%20is%20to,published%20in%201897%20by%20A.E.
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@RasmaSandra (97912)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
2 Oct 22
That is very interesting, What I have noticed about crickets is that when they begin to chirp that noise really gets to your ears and then suddenly when they stop the quiet seems very odd,
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@celticeagle (189793)
• Boise, Idaho
3 Oct 22
They get quiet when Big Foot is around I hear. Haha
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@LindaOHio (222222)
• United States
3 Oct 22
We haven't had a cricket in the house for a while.
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@celticeagle (189793)
• Boise, Idaho
3 Oct 22
I don't think we ever have had one in here.
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@Nakitakona (59987)
• Philippines
10 Nov 22
This is interesting. Kids are curious to try this. This is a good experiment for the grade students in their Science class.
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@celticeagle (189793)
• Boise, Idaho
10 Nov 22
It sure would be. That's a great idea to keep kids interested.
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