1
00:00:03,080 --> 00:00:06,000
Speaker 1: Welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind from how Stuff

2
00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:15,040
Speaker 1: Works dot com. Hey, welcome to stuff to Blow your mind.

3
00:00:15,040 --> 00:00:17,320
Speaker 1: My name is Robert Lamb and my name is Julie

4
00:00:17,320 --> 00:00:20,200
Speaker 1: Cricket Douglas. That's your your nickname these days because of

5
00:00:20,280 --> 00:00:23,079
Speaker 1: your proficiency in the sport of cricket. No, no, no,

6
00:00:23,280 --> 00:00:26,400
Speaker 1: my chripping. Oh you're chirping. Yes, it's summer. This is

7
00:00:26,400 --> 00:00:28,600
Speaker 1: when I chirped. Yeah. I mean, you know we've talked

8
00:00:28,600 --> 00:00:31,200
Speaker 1: about before. We're social creatures. We want to fall in

9
00:00:31,280 --> 00:00:33,080
Speaker 1: line with what everybody seems to be doing. And if

10
00:00:33,080 --> 00:00:35,640
Speaker 1: you go out on a summer night, even in a

11
00:00:35,720 --> 00:00:39,440
Speaker 1: city of sprawling and is artificial in many places as Atlanta,

12
00:00:39,880 --> 00:00:41,159
Speaker 1: what do you hear at now? You hear this, this

13
00:00:41,280 --> 00:00:45,760
Speaker 1: constant cacophony, This just roar at times of insect life

14
00:00:45,800 --> 00:00:49,200
Speaker 1: in the trees and the grass hiding underneath your house,

15
00:00:49,320 --> 00:00:53,479
Speaker 1: just chirping away, cricking away, making all these crazy noises.

16
00:00:53,520 --> 00:00:55,080
Speaker 1: And you know, after a while, you just give up,

17
00:00:55,080 --> 00:00:56,920
Speaker 1: You fall in line, and you just start chirping at

18
00:00:56,920 --> 00:00:59,960
Speaker 1: the moon, chirping at the moon, dripping at the moon. Yeah,

19
00:01:00,800 --> 00:01:03,000
Speaker 1: it's true. That's what I love about summer is that

20
00:01:03,120 --> 00:01:06,360
Speaker 1: does bring on that cacophony of nature. Yeah, and if

21
00:01:06,360 --> 00:01:09,560
Speaker 1: you're like me, just grab a fresh jug of moonshine

22
00:01:09,560 --> 00:01:11,559
Speaker 1: and you go out onto your porch. You really get

23
00:01:11,600 --> 00:01:14,000
Speaker 1: to enjoy the sounds of nature. What you don't do that?

24
00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:16,479
Speaker 1: It's the South. We're in Georgia. You don't have moonshine.

25
00:01:16,600 --> 00:01:18,240
Speaker 1: Is this store about moonshine or is that are you

26
00:01:18,280 --> 00:01:21,039
Speaker 1: making this in your top? It is hand crafted moonshine

27
00:01:21,760 --> 00:01:24,319
Speaker 1: from my local artisan. Well that's that's the way to

28
00:01:24,319 --> 00:01:26,880
Speaker 1: do it. Then, yeah, yeah, it really is making it

29
00:01:26,880 --> 00:01:29,000
Speaker 1: come back by the way. Oh yeah, and it's you

30
00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:33,200
Speaker 1: have like, yeah, artisan um moonshine showing up people drinking

31
00:01:33,200 --> 00:01:37,320
Speaker 1: out of mason jars and all. Yeah it's quaint, but yeah,

32
00:01:37,319 --> 00:01:39,000
Speaker 1: I mean this is this is the time to really

33
00:01:39,160 --> 00:01:42,160
Speaker 1: enjoy that cacophony. And I did want to point out

34
00:01:42,240 --> 00:01:44,800
Speaker 1: before we start to talk about what some of this um,

35
00:01:44,840 --> 00:01:48,400
Speaker 1: these sounds of nature mean when we really eats drop

36
00:01:48,440 --> 00:01:51,800
Speaker 1: in closely, I did want to point out that crickets

37
00:01:52,160 --> 00:01:54,880
Speaker 1: are really huge in some parts of the world, particularly

38
00:01:54,880 --> 00:01:59,000
Speaker 1: in Japan. Bob Pemberton, he's an associate with the Florida

39
00:01:59,040 --> 00:02:00,920
Speaker 1: Museum of Natural History. He says that there's a rich

40
00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:05,080
Speaker 1: tradition of keeping singing insects, beginning with emperors who kept

41
00:02:05,080 --> 00:02:08,680
Speaker 1: them in cages in their courts, and he's sad. In fact,

42
00:02:08,720 --> 00:02:11,440
Speaker 1: there is a Buddhist temple near Kyoto with a meditation

43
00:02:11,560 --> 00:02:15,800
Speaker 1: room which terrariums filled with tree crickets, and the monkey

44
00:02:15,919 --> 00:02:20,840
Speaker 1: was taking him through this um meditation room said that

45
00:02:20,960 --> 00:02:25,400
Speaker 1: the voice of cricket is the voice of the Buddha. Well,

46
00:02:25,400 --> 00:02:27,560
Speaker 1: that's an interesting way of looking at I mean, certainly

47
00:02:28,240 --> 00:02:32,160
Speaker 1: there's something very meditative about these organic sounds, about about

48
00:02:32,160 --> 00:02:35,240
Speaker 1: bird song or certainly insects sounds. Um, you can you

49
00:02:35,280 --> 00:02:38,400
Speaker 1: can buy CDs filled with these kind of nature sounds

50
00:02:38,400 --> 00:02:41,079
Speaker 1: to help you relax. So it makes sense that before

51
00:02:41,120 --> 00:02:45,840
Speaker 1: the age of New Age meditation albums, you would just

52
00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:48,160
Speaker 1: stemp will simply put a handful of crickets in a

53
00:02:48,200 --> 00:02:50,959
Speaker 1: cage and uh stick that in your yoga in right. Yeah. Yeah,

54
00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:54,880
Speaker 1: Well apparently to like keeping crickets is a thing in Japan,

55
00:02:54,919 --> 00:02:57,480
Speaker 1: like you keep them in little cages or sometimes people

56
00:02:57,480 --> 00:02:59,840
Speaker 1: will drop them into their pockets so they can enjoy

57
00:02:59,880 --> 00:03:03,679
Speaker 1: the sound. Well, you know, growing up, I remember, and

58
00:03:04,200 --> 00:03:05,960
Speaker 1: I don't know to what extent this is like a

59
00:03:06,080 --> 00:03:08,600
Speaker 1: larger thing. If this is like a Southern thing or what.

60
00:03:08,880 --> 00:03:10,680
Speaker 1: But I always heard, you know, if you have a

61
00:03:10,760 --> 00:03:13,200
Speaker 1: cricket in your house, it's good luck. You're not supposed

62
00:03:13,240 --> 00:03:16,040
Speaker 1: to kill a cricket. At most, you're supposed to let

63
00:03:16,040 --> 00:03:18,080
Speaker 1: it go outside, which generally what I tried to do

64
00:03:18,120 --> 00:03:21,680
Speaker 1: with insects of any kind that wander into the house.

65
00:03:21,960 --> 00:03:24,880
Speaker 1: But specifically the cricket was was good luck, and it

66
00:03:24,960 --> 00:03:27,640
Speaker 1: was a bad omen if you squashed it. Did you

67
00:03:27,680 --> 00:03:29,880
Speaker 1: have this? I have never heard of this, never heard

68
00:03:29,880 --> 00:03:33,040
Speaker 1: of it ever. So not a Michigan thing. It's not

69
00:03:33,120 --> 00:03:35,360
Speaker 1: a Michigan thing. I mean, the only reference point I

70
00:03:35,400 --> 00:03:39,680
Speaker 1: have two crickets is my great uncle Louis mcgulley, who

71
00:03:39,800 --> 00:03:43,839
Speaker 1: used to cheap what was that last name, mcgulley from Chicologo,

72
00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:45,720
Speaker 1: who would keep a cricket in his pocket. But I

73
00:03:45,760 --> 00:03:47,760
Speaker 1: think he did that more as like just some sort

74
00:03:47,800 --> 00:03:49,640
Speaker 1: of parlor truck, like a real cricket. Or is this

75
00:03:49,720 --> 00:03:54,000
Speaker 1: like code for a handgun? A good question, but but

76
00:03:54,040 --> 00:03:56,200
Speaker 1: we'll go with a real crick He assuming he had

77
00:03:56,200 --> 00:03:57,920
Speaker 1: a real cricket, he kept a real cricket in his

78
00:03:57,960 --> 00:04:01,360
Speaker 1: pocket at all times. He did we defeat it. I

79
00:04:01,400 --> 00:04:03,160
Speaker 1: don't know. I just heard stories of us, and I

80
00:04:03,160 --> 00:04:06,200
Speaker 1: almostly mean that he replaced this cricket well quite often,

81
00:04:06,240 --> 00:04:09,080
Speaker 1: you'd want otherwise would just be heartbroking breaking to have

82
00:04:09,320 --> 00:04:10,920
Speaker 1: care that that cricket around with you all the time.

83
00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:12,920
Speaker 1: I should also point out, I'm of course talking about

84
00:04:12,960 --> 00:04:17,320
Speaker 1: the cute little black cricket and not the grotesque um

85
00:04:18,080 --> 00:04:21,720
Speaker 1: geeger esque humpback cricket camel cricket. That's funny, said, I

86
00:04:21,760 --> 00:04:23,840
Speaker 1: was about to say ena more. Yeah, because those those

87
00:04:23,880 --> 00:04:25,839
Speaker 1: are the ones that did generally live under the house

88
00:04:25,920 --> 00:04:29,760
Speaker 1: and then creep up into the surface world to gross

89
00:04:29,800 --> 00:04:32,479
Speaker 1: you out, or if you're a cat, enthrall you with

90
00:04:32,600 --> 00:04:37,080
Speaker 1: your jumping ability. Cats love them at them and I'm

91
00:04:37,120 --> 00:04:40,600
Speaker 1: sure they're full protein as well, it's true. Um, So

92
00:04:40,640 --> 00:04:43,480
Speaker 1: shall we lean in close and with the aid of

93
00:04:43,640 --> 00:04:48,760
Speaker 1: entomologists really eavesdrop on that comphony of nature? Yeah, because

94
00:04:49,320 --> 00:04:52,200
Speaker 1: to us it's cacophony. To it it were it at most,

95
00:04:52,279 --> 00:04:55,880
Speaker 1: it's sort of a serene musical performance that we that

96
00:04:55,960 --> 00:04:58,520
Speaker 1: we just kind of take in. But really what we

97
00:04:58,520 --> 00:05:03,400
Speaker 1: are hearing is acid communication in the insect and interact

98
00:05:03,440 --> 00:05:07,760
Speaker 1: need world. Um, mostly insect that we're hearing all of

99
00:05:07,800 --> 00:05:10,839
Speaker 1: the communications is going on at once. We can't understand it.

100
00:05:10,920 --> 00:05:12,960
Speaker 1: We don't know what they're talking about. Um, I mean

101
00:05:13,040 --> 00:05:15,120
Speaker 1: unless you study it. And we're gonna talk about some

102
00:05:15,160 --> 00:05:17,640
Speaker 1: of those studies here shortly. But but yeah, when you

103
00:05:17,680 --> 00:05:21,160
Speaker 1: start breaking it down, uh, these are actual communications. Uh.

104
00:05:21,240 --> 00:05:26,120
Speaker 1: Species talking to like species. Uh species warning enemies to

105
00:05:26,120 --> 00:05:29,480
Speaker 1: stay away from them. Species trying to confuse enemies. Uh.

106
00:05:29,680 --> 00:05:34,040
Speaker 1: Species trying to draw prey into their grasps uh species

107
00:05:34,640 --> 00:05:37,640
Speaker 1: or particular suitors trying to deal with rival suitors or

108
00:05:37,640 --> 00:05:40,120
Speaker 1: attractive may There's all sorts of stuff going on. Just

109
00:05:40,200 --> 00:05:42,719
Speaker 1: imagine like a million different emails or phone calls just

110
00:05:43,040 --> 00:05:46,120
Speaker 1: zipping through the sky invisible. And that's what's going on

111
00:05:46,440 --> 00:05:49,880
Speaker 1: in the insects song world. And there's no better insect

112
00:05:49,880 --> 00:05:52,719
Speaker 1: to start off with than cicadas, which we have covered before.

113
00:05:52,720 --> 00:05:55,960
Speaker 1: We talked about a cicadas and and that throng, that

114
00:05:56,200 --> 00:05:59,120
Speaker 1: humming that you hear in the trees that used to

115
00:05:59,120 --> 00:06:02,640
Speaker 1: to me sonify like the hottest parts of the summer

116
00:06:03,120 --> 00:06:07,320
Speaker 1: and decaying in death. But now now I look at

117
00:06:07,400 --> 00:06:10,919
Speaker 1: this song, is is this really actually beautiful symphony that

118
00:06:10,960 --> 00:06:13,600
Speaker 1: we're putting together. Well, let's hear a quick clip from

119
00:06:13,600 --> 00:06:17,720
Speaker 1: it from the Song of the Cicada U copyright Whenever

120
00:06:17,760 --> 00:06:20,680
Speaker 1: cicadas decided to cross of the ground originally, Uh, here

121
00:06:20,680 --> 00:06:32,159
Speaker 1: we go. Now, I agree with you that for me,

122
00:06:32,200 --> 00:06:34,599
Speaker 1: the sound of the cicadas, it's always just been a

123
00:06:34,640 --> 00:06:38,919
Speaker 1: part of a hot summer, just sweltering out and the

124
00:06:38,960 --> 00:06:41,920
Speaker 1: and the trees the forest around you are just throbbing

125
00:06:42,040 --> 00:06:45,000
Speaker 1: in the same way that the heat is throbbing. And

126
00:06:45,080 --> 00:06:48,800
Speaker 1: in the cyclical nature of the brood emergence. Also, it's

127
00:06:48,839 --> 00:06:51,880
Speaker 1: impossible not to to correlate that with with cycles of

128
00:06:51,920 --> 00:06:56,960
Speaker 1: life and death, you know, especially as the broods vanished

129
00:06:56,960 --> 00:06:59,680
Speaker 1: the cicada song vanishes, other things in your life may

130
00:06:59,760 --> 00:07:01,920
Speaker 1: van sure change as well, and then the cicada has

131
00:07:01,960 --> 00:07:04,080
Speaker 1: come back, and uh, and then there is something kind

132
00:07:04,080 --> 00:07:06,440
Speaker 1: of magical about that. Well, especially if you consider that

133
00:07:06,440 --> 00:07:08,760
Speaker 1: that brood is either thirteen years in the making or

134
00:07:08,839 --> 00:07:11,680
Speaker 1: seventeen years in making, you know, seventeen years underground. And

135
00:07:11,680 --> 00:07:13,920
Speaker 1: then they come out and they sing their very white

136
00:07:13,960 --> 00:07:17,480
Speaker 1: love songs that the males do to the ladies out there,

137
00:07:17,960 --> 00:07:22,480
Speaker 1: and they really do exist just to to reproduce and

138
00:07:22,560 --> 00:07:24,840
Speaker 1: die off. Yeah, And of course, as we discussed in

139
00:07:24,840 --> 00:07:26,960
Speaker 1: our we we didn't eos about cicada's a while back,

140
00:07:27,040 --> 00:07:29,520
Speaker 1: which people can can look up, but they sort of

141
00:07:29,520 --> 00:07:31,720
Speaker 1: an important purpose. You have all these nutrients that are

142
00:07:31,720 --> 00:07:34,120
Speaker 1: locked away in the ground when they're just when they

143
00:07:34,160 --> 00:07:36,360
Speaker 1: when they when they haven't emerged yet, and when they emerge,

144
00:07:36,360 --> 00:07:38,480
Speaker 1: they're bringing all those nutrients out into the world. So

145
00:07:38,520 --> 00:07:43,120
Speaker 1: it's feast day as well for birds, humans, even cats

146
00:07:43,120 --> 00:07:45,520
Speaker 1: of course, anybody who wants to get in on the

147
00:07:46,080 --> 00:07:48,560
Speaker 1: feast of the cicada. Yeah. You know, what's so fascinating

148
00:07:48,560 --> 00:07:52,080
Speaker 1: about that is that they're not quite sure how cicadas

149
00:07:52,120 --> 00:07:54,760
Speaker 1: are cued to come out after seventeen years. They think

150
00:07:54,760 --> 00:07:57,680
Speaker 1: it's weather related, but still it's a bit of a mystery.

151
00:07:57,720 --> 00:08:01,240
Speaker 1: But it turns out that there are some cicadas that

152
00:08:01,360 --> 00:08:03,680
Speaker 1: don't get the cue and they crawl out like a

153
00:08:03,760 --> 00:08:06,760
Speaker 1: year later, and there's like that lone cicada just you know,

154
00:08:06,880 --> 00:08:10,320
Speaker 1: that lonely little chirping. Yeah, we know, all right. There's

155
00:08:10,320 --> 00:08:13,280
Speaker 1: something like sadly poetic about like the one hippie cicada

156
00:08:13,320 --> 00:08:16,880
Speaker 1: showing up a would stock the year after, yes, yes,

157
00:08:17,600 --> 00:08:22,480
Speaker 1: saying hello, any ladies out there, and literally it's crickets.

158
00:08:24,880 --> 00:08:28,080
Speaker 1: So um. Mainly it is the males, of course making

159
00:08:28,120 --> 00:08:31,080
Speaker 1: the sound. It's worth noting that females can it can

160
00:08:31,120 --> 00:08:33,920
Speaker 1: also make sounds as well, though it's not the signature

161
00:08:33,960 --> 00:08:35,840
Speaker 1: sound that we've heard, and they often all make a

162
00:08:35,920 --> 00:08:39,000
Speaker 1: slightly different sound when they're warning you, hey, don't pick

163
00:08:39,080 --> 00:08:42,160
Speaker 1: me up, um, don't stick me in your pocket. That's

164
00:08:42,280 --> 00:08:46,400
Speaker 1: a different sound as well. Yeah. David Rothenberg, he is

165
00:08:46,400 --> 00:08:50,480
Speaker 1: an interspecies musician. He actually talks about this about the

166
00:08:50,760 --> 00:08:53,839
Speaker 1: very specific noises that they make, the song that they make,

167
00:08:53,880 --> 00:08:56,800
Speaker 1: and he says that whenever you hear a summer convergence

168
00:08:56,840 --> 00:09:01,000
Speaker 1: of Scatta's, you're really hearing nine separate sounds made by

169
00:09:01,080 --> 00:09:04,959
Speaker 1: three related species and they're all there at the same time.

170
00:09:05,280 --> 00:09:08,840
Speaker 1: And so you've got something called the magic Cicada cass

171
00:09:08,920 --> 00:09:13,280
Speaker 1: and i and that makes that swump swelling sound that

172
00:09:13,320 --> 00:09:15,360
Speaker 1: you kind of hear, and to me, that's the most

173
00:09:15,679 --> 00:09:19,440
Speaker 1: prominent sound um that you just hear that swell and

174
00:09:19,440 --> 00:09:21,520
Speaker 1: it just sounds like something is about to burst. And

175
00:09:21,559 --> 00:09:25,680
Speaker 1: then there's the Magicada semendicular and that's another species that

176
00:09:25,720 --> 00:09:28,440
Speaker 1: makes more of a percussive sound. And then the third

177
00:09:28,440 --> 00:09:32,880
Speaker 1: species is magic Cicada sept in sennial and this sounds

178
00:09:32,960 --> 00:09:38,520
Speaker 1: like Pharaoh like saying it's like fair, fair crow. And uh,

179
00:09:38,600 --> 00:09:42,160
Speaker 1: it's really cool because this is a three part process,

180
00:09:42,360 --> 00:09:46,040
Speaker 1: this mating call. That first sound, that that squoshing sound,

181
00:09:46,120 --> 00:09:49,240
Speaker 1: and this this whole process is just sort of attracting

182
00:09:49,240 --> 00:09:51,920
Speaker 1: the ladies and saying I'm right here, and the closer

183
00:09:51,960 --> 00:09:56,160
Speaker 1: they get together, the more the sounds change. And the

184
00:09:56,240 --> 00:10:00,000
Speaker 1: cool thing is that in these pauses between these sounds,

185
00:10:00,280 --> 00:10:03,440
Speaker 1: the female just flicks her wing as a way to

186
00:10:03,440 --> 00:10:06,280
Speaker 1: say here I am. Yeah, so that's kind of her

187
00:10:06,440 --> 00:10:09,559
Speaker 1: call in response. Of course, how how is this signature

188
00:10:09,559 --> 00:10:12,400
Speaker 1: male sound made? Um, the female sound that you mentioned,

189
00:10:12,400 --> 00:10:14,280
Speaker 1: that's just made by flicking their wings together. But the

190
00:10:14,320 --> 00:10:17,160
Speaker 1: males use a membrane and we call this membrane the

191
00:10:17,240 --> 00:10:19,960
Speaker 1: timble and really the best way and it's it's like

192
00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:23,480
Speaker 1: an on their abdomen. And in terms of describing what

193
00:10:23,559 --> 00:10:26,800
Speaker 1: the material looks like and how it generates the sound,

194
00:10:27,160 --> 00:10:30,400
Speaker 1: the best real world uh, well not real world, but

195
00:10:30,480 --> 00:10:34,240
Speaker 1: let's say artificial human world. Um uh. Analog that we

196
00:10:34,320 --> 00:10:36,760
Speaker 1: have is the bindy straw, you know, the bindy part

197
00:10:36,760 --> 00:10:40,920
Speaker 1: of the bindy straw, and it makes that signature noise

198
00:10:42,120 --> 00:10:45,120
Speaker 1: that is essentially what's going on, right, because the abdomen

199
00:10:45,240 --> 00:10:48,079
Speaker 1: is more like that accordion part that's air filled this

200
00:10:48,200 --> 00:10:51,400
Speaker 1: air filled sack, and then the tembles aren't either side,

201
00:10:51,760 --> 00:10:54,400
Speaker 1: and then you have these series of three to five

202
00:10:54,480 --> 00:10:57,800
Speaker 1: kings that excite a residence in the abdomen and that's

203
00:10:58,000 --> 00:11:02,160
Speaker 1: radiated as sound through the insects ear drums. This is

204
00:11:02,200 --> 00:11:05,480
Speaker 1: so cool that's located at the bottom of the abdomen.

205
00:11:05,559 --> 00:11:07,439
Speaker 1: The insects ear drums are at the bottom of the

206
00:11:07,480 --> 00:11:11,120
Speaker 1: abdomen um, so that creates this huge sound pressure that

207
00:11:11,160 --> 00:11:13,200
Speaker 1: acts as a sound converter, and then you have a

208
00:11:13,280 --> 00:11:16,760
Speaker 1: sound that is one hundred and eight decibels loud at

209
00:11:16,800 --> 00:11:19,600
Speaker 1: a one meter range. So just to give you guys

210
00:11:19,640 --> 00:11:23,080
Speaker 1: a little context up there, um, an alarm clock is

211
00:11:23,160 --> 00:11:26,679
Speaker 1: eighty decibles, a rock concert is a hundred and ten decibles,

212
00:11:26,760 --> 00:11:29,920
Speaker 1: in a thundercloup is a hundred and twenty decibles. It's

213
00:11:29,960 --> 00:11:32,880
Speaker 1: interesting that too, that the the cicadas actually tuned down

214
00:11:32,920 --> 00:11:35,880
Speaker 1: their own hearing via muscles to ensure that they're not

215
00:11:35,960 --> 00:11:39,320
Speaker 1: deafened by their own noises. Right. It's it's so if

216
00:11:39,320 --> 00:11:41,040
Speaker 1: you ever think what these guys are loud, that they

217
00:11:41,040 --> 00:11:43,080
Speaker 1: know it too, that's why they're having to tune down

218
00:11:43,640 --> 00:11:48,200
Speaker 1: to sing these songs. Um. So this year's World Science Festival,

219
00:11:48,200 --> 00:11:51,760
Speaker 1: they had a presentation titled the Cicada Serenades, Music, Mating

220
00:11:51,760 --> 00:11:54,400
Speaker 1: and Meaning and it was really good stuff. Um. It

221
00:11:54,440 --> 00:11:56,240
Speaker 1: was quite an adventure to get there because we had

222
00:11:56,280 --> 00:11:59,480
Speaker 1: to go all the way from Manhattan to to the

223
00:11:59,480 --> 00:12:01,640
Speaker 1: Bronx to the Botanical Garden there and we have like

224
00:12:01,679 --> 00:12:03,520
Speaker 1: an hour to do it. And it turns out and

225
00:12:04,080 --> 00:12:06,480
Speaker 1: New Yorkers may laugh at me for even thinking that

226
00:12:06,480 --> 00:12:08,600
Speaker 1: that was a reasonable amount of time to get all

227
00:12:08,600 --> 00:12:11,680
Speaker 1: the way up to the Bronx. Uh, we barely made it.

228
00:12:12,120 --> 00:12:16,240
Speaker 1: But but they they they they presented a really fascinating

229
00:12:16,559 --> 00:12:20,480
Speaker 1: presentation on cicada song and insects song. Rothenburger we mentioned

230
00:12:20,480 --> 00:12:23,600
Speaker 1: was there another individual we're gonna mention in a minute,

231
00:12:23,600 --> 00:12:26,600
Speaker 1: was there as well. One thing that they pointed out

232
00:12:26,800 --> 00:12:31,760
Speaker 1: is that we we don't really understand why some male

233
00:12:31,800 --> 00:12:34,839
Speaker 1: cicadas get lucky and others don't because they're all singing

234
00:12:34,880 --> 00:12:37,520
Speaker 1: this this, this song and uh, a number of you know,

235
00:12:37,960 --> 00:12:39,960
Speaker 1: countless other species out there in the world. We know

236
00:12:40,000 --> 00:12:42,600
Speaker 1: that they're mating. Display is like saying, hey, ladies, this

237
00:12:42,679 --> 00:12:44,880
Speaker 1: is what I have to offer, and the ladies go

238
00:12:45,600 --> 00:12:48,320
Speaker 1: which one has the best mating display, you know, sort

239
00:12:48,320 --> 00:12:50,719
Speaker 1: of like which which guy has the nicest car or

240
00:12:50,800 --> 00:12:54,040
Speaker 1: the coolest house or the most beautiful singing voice. But

241
00:12:54,040 --> 00:12:56,920
Speaker 1: but they don't seem to have any judgment along those lines,

242
00:12:56,960 --> 00:12:59,320
Speaker 1: like all the skata songs are basically the same, so

243
00:12:59,480 --> 00:13:01,880
Speaker 1: it remains a bit of a mystery. Yeah, and there's

244
00:13:01,920 --> 00:13:06,320
Speaker 1: so many of them, yes, um, And so you gotta wonder,

245
00:13:06,559 --> 00:13:10,880
Speaker 1: is this just a matter of proximity, you know, where

246
00:13:10,840 --> 00:13:12,920
Speaker 1: there are that many of them where it's just like, hey,

247
00:13:12,960 --> 00:13:16,079
Speaker 1: we have x amount of days here, it's team on us,

248
00:13:16,160 --> 00:13:17,760
Speaker 1: like ten days. We need to go ahead and do

249
00:13:17,800 --> 00:13:21,440
Speaker 1: that because we're going to be like dust. Pretty well.

250
00:13:21,440 --> 00:13:24,040
Speaker 1: They've been in the ground for a long time. So yeah,

251
00:13:24,120 --> 00:13:25,880
Speaker 1: maybe it's just proximity. And there's so many of them,

252
00:13:25,880 --> 00:13:28,360
Speaker 1: maybe they just realize we've we've got it figured out.

253
00:13:28,400 --> 00:13:30,720
Speaker 1: There's no need to be choosy guys, let's just do it.

254
00:13:30,840 --> 00:13:34,439
Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean, it's let's go back to woodstock.

255
00:13:34,559 --> 00:13:39,880
Speaker 1: It's one big woodstock, like you know, converging right, alright,

256
00:13:39,920 --> 00:13:41,839
Speaker 1: So let's take a quick break and when we get

257
00:13:41,840 --> 00:13:45,199
Speaker 1: back we will cover crickets, of course, but also an

258
00:13:45,200 --> 00:13:47,960
Speaker 1: insect that uses it's en us to make a noise

259
00:13:48,040 --> 00:14:02,400
Speaker 1: of gray labnoses. Alright, so we've talked about Okay, does

260
00:14:02,400 --> 00:14:05,120
Speaker 1: do you anything else to add about the cicada love songs? No,

261
00:14:05,360 --> 00:14:08,840
Speaker 1: just that it's reframed my my idea of what cicadas mean.

262
00:14:09,000 --> 00:14:12,000
Speaker 1: Now I think about tons of love making going on

263
00:14:12,080 --> 00:14:14,439
Speaker 1: when I hear that swell as opposed to deaf and

264
00:14:14,520 --> 00:14:21,400
Speaker 1: decay in the the summer storms coming on. Well, it

265
00:14:21,440 --> 00:14:23,920
Speaker 1: should be obvious cicadas are not the only creatures that

266
00:14:23,960 --> 00:14:26,800
Speaker 1: make make songs. Again, there are a countless varieties of

267
00:14:26,840 --> 00:14:29,720
Speaker 1: insects out there in the night or in even the day,

268
00:14:29,720 --> 00:14:32,480
Speaker 1: even creating all of these sounds. And we're going to

269
00:14:32,520 --> 00:14:34,840
Speaker 1: mention some of the other ones that are worth noting.

270
00:14:35,200 --> 00:14:37,720
Speaker 1: That's right, crickets. Okay, So a lot of people think

271
00:14:37,760 --> 00:14:41,400
Speaker 1: that crickets just rub their legs to make their iconic noise,

272
00:14:41,600 --> 00:14:45,000
Speaker 1: but they do not. Male crickets have a file on

273
00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:48,640
Speaker 1: one wing and a scraper or a plectrum on the

274
00:14:48,680 --> 00:14:50,960
Speaker 1: other wing. They rub the scraper with a file and

275
00:14:50,960 --> 00:14:54,680
Speaker 1: then that makes that chirping noise, which turns out to

276
00:14:54,720 --> 00:14:57,680
Speaker 1: be one hundred dest bulls by the way. Yeah, and

277
00:14:58,320 --> 00:15:00,640
Speaker 1: it's important you have that you mentioned the ridges too,

278
00:15:00,640 --> 00:15:02,280
Speaker 1: because it's not just a matter of like, oh, let's

279
00:15:02,280 --> 00:15:04,320
Speaker 1: say I've got a leg and I've got a wing

280
00:15:04,440 --> 00:15:06,520
Speaker 1: or or another, you know, insects I've got, I've got

281
00:15:06,560 --> 00:15:08,280
Speaker 1: a couple of legs. If you got a couple of wings,

282
00:15:08,280 --> 00:15:10,000
Speaker 1: I should just rub all this stuff together and see

283
00:15:10,040 --> 00:15:13,520
Speaker 1: what happens. Uh No, it's it's much more deliberate than that.

284
00:15:13,560 --> 00:15:17,000
Speaker 1: There is one ridge moves against another ridge, and that

285
00:15:17,240 --> 00:15:20,040
Speaker 1: is uh, that is what creates the noise. Yeah. And uh,

286
00:15:20,160 --> 00:15:22,520
Speaker 1: I did want to point out something called mull crickets

287
00:15:22,560 --> 00:15:25,440
Speaker 1: here because they sort of up the game and they

288
00:15:25,640 --> 00:15:29,000
Speaker 1: use a burrow to act as an acoustic device and

289
00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:31,920
Speaker 1: then radiate sound much like you would with a megaphone.

290
00:15:32,120 --> 00:15:35,320
Speaker 1: So they basically make their own amphitheater for their performance. Yeah.

291
00:15:35,360 --> 00:15:37,600
Speaker 1: And when I say megaphone, that really that's way too

292
00:15:37,600 --> 00:15:40,680
Speaker 1: simple of an explanation because really they're they're acoustic setup

293
00:15:40,760 --> 00:15:43,800
Speaker 1: is far more nuanced and complex than that. Yeah. And

294
00:15:44,960 --> 00:15:49,960
Speaker 1: occasionally you do encounter insects that accidentally benefit from acoustic residents. Um,

295
00:15:50,280 --> 00:15:52,240
Speaker 1: if you have have anyone who's ever had a bug getting

296
00:15:52,280 --> 00:15:55,280
Speaker 1: your ear. I think there's a app Also there's proximity

297
00:15:55,320 --> 00:15:57,440
Speaker 1: to the noise that's going on there as well. But

298
00:15:58,200 --> 00:16:01,080
Speaker 1: there they have their own amphitheater. And uh once I

299
00:16:01,120 --> 00:16:04,920
Speaker 1: had a click bug crawl into a picture frame. So

300
00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:06,560
Speaker 1: it was in there and like just the right spot,

301
00:16:06,560 --> 00:16:09,240
Speaker 1: and it was exceedingly loud. It took me for every

302
00:16:09,280 --> 00:16:10,480
Speaker 1: to figure out what it was. I thought there was

303
00:16:10,560 --> 00:16:14,760
Speaker 1: like somebody in the wall tapping on something click the bug. Yeah,

304
00:16:14,840 --> 00:16:17,800
Speaker 1: like a click click beetle type thing. Okay, pop, you know,

305
00:16:18,200 --> 00:16:20,080
Speaker 1: and if they have something to pop against and then

306
00:16:20,120 --> 00:16:23,640
Speaker 1: if that can resonate, then it becomes this whole different performance.

307
00:16:24,000 --> 00:16:26,800
Speaker 1: It's true, and it is a performance. Uh. For instance,

308
00:16:26,800 --> 00:16:29,480
Speaker 1: grasshoppers like the cricket, they use this what's called stride

309
00:16:29,720 --> 00:16:34,280
Speaker 1: stride eulation that's the scraper, and they used the scraper

310
00:16:34,360 --> 00:16:37,480
Speaker 1: on these little pegs on their hind legs. Yeah, which

311
00:16:37,520 --> 00:16:40,560
Speaker 1: kind of reminded me again of moon shine and making

312
00:16:40,680 --> 00:16:44,760
Speaker 1: music and you know, using a washboard to make some

313
00:16:44,840 --> 00:16:47,600
Speaker 1: sort of sound. Like I am instantly imagining like grasshoppers

314
00:16:47,640 --> 00:16:51,120
Speaker 1: in crickets all setting around playing like string instruments and

315
00:16:51,200 --> 00:16:53,960
Speaker 1: playing the jug maybe and drinking menshine to the point

316
00:16:54,000 --> 00:16:57,040
Speaker 1: where I must have seen that somewhere. Maybe that exists,

317
00:16:57,160 --> 00:17:00,800
Speaker 1: probably in a Pixar movie or it should be. But

318
00:17:01,440 --> 00:17:03,320
Speaker 1: to your point, a lot of people don't realize that

319
00:17:03,560 --> 00:17:07,360
Speaker 1: crickets and grasshoppers are making their their sounds via completely

320
00:17:07,400 --> 00:17:11,000
Speaker 1: different methods. Yeah, and and speaking of completely different methods,

321
00:17:11,440 --> 00:17:13,560
Speaker 1: what if this guy showed up to the cricket and

322
00:17:13,560 --> 00:17:18,680
Speaker 1: grasshopper party. Um, this is called the micronecta Scholtzi, also

323
00:17:18,840 --> 00:17:22,640
Speaker 1: known as the singing penis. It is a freshwater insect

324
00:17:22,880 --> 00:17:26,359
Speaker 1: and it measures just two millimeters across. It's common across Europe,

325
00:17:26,400 --> 00:17:29,000
Speaker 1: so maybe some of our European listeners will will know

326
00:17:29,040 --> 00:17:31,240
Speaker 1: about the singing penis. And now this is not a

327
00:17:31,280 --> 00:17:34,479
Speaker 1: singing penis in the in line with Steve Martin sketch

328
00:17:34,720 --> 00:17:37,080
Speaker 1: if you remember this, uh, I think it was a

329
00:17:37,119 --> 00:17:39,920
Speaker 1: Saturday Night live bit that he did. I don't know.

330
00:17:40,160 --> 00:17:41,960
Speaker 1: He would he would end sip his pants and there's

331
00:17:41,960 --> 00:17:44,240
Speaker 1: a microphone and it's like singing, and then he would

332
00:17:44,359 --> 00:17:46,720
Speaker 1: actually he would smoke a cigarette with it as well.

333
00:17:46,760 --> 00:17:48,840
Speaker 1: That was part of the act. Was it kind of

334
00:17:48,840 --> 00:17:51,479
Speaker 1: like a ventriloquist act? Yeah, it was kind of supposed

335
00:17:51,480 --> 00:17:54,800
Speaker 1: to be like that, like like he was very um, dignified.

336
00:17:54,840 --> 00:17:56,960
Speaker 1: It was very much in the style of let's say,

337
00:17:56,960 --> 00:17:59,639
Speaker 1: the fartist that we've talked about before, you know, Um,

338
00:17:59,680 --> 00:18:01,679
Speaker 1: but I'm pretty sure was Saturday Nightlife Skin. I'm sure

339
00:18:01,680 --> 00:18:04,600
Speaker 1: it's on YouTube somewhere. Um, but but that is not

340
00:18:04,640 --> 00:18:08,119
Speaker 1: what's happening here. With the penis. We're seeing another example

341
00:18:08,400 --> 00:18:11,080
Speaker 1: of this stridulation that we've been talking about again. It's

342
00:18:11,080 --> 00:18:14,240
Speaker 1: one it's one part of the body rubbing against the other. Um.

343
00:18:14,240 --> 00:18:16,000
Speaker 1: I mean really, when you hear all that noise in

344
00:18:16,040 --> 00:18:18,720
Speaker 1: the in the the insects song in the forest, you're

345
00:18:18,760 --> 00:18:21,320
Speaker 1: just hearing a great rubbing of parts, It's true. And

346
00:18:21,320 --> 00:18:23,320
Speaker 1: in this part is it is the penis part, and

347
00:18:23,480 --> 00:18:26,879
Speaker 1: it's a ridge on our penis, which then is rubbed

348
00:18:26,880 --> 00:18:30,359
Speaker 1: against a ridge on the surface of their abdomen. And

349
00:18:30,400 --> 00:18:35,320
Speaker 1: this is so trippy. The surface area is roughly the

350
00:18:35,359 --> 00:18:39,240
Speaker 1: width of a human hair, and it is producing a

351
00:18:39,280 --> 00:18:43,680
Speaker 1: noise of like two decibels. This is incredibly loud. I mean,

352
00:18:43,680 --> 00:18:45,879
Speaker 1: this is like the equivalent of listening to a loud

353
00:18:46,000 --> 00:18:48,080
Speaker 1: orchestra play if you're in the front row. Yeah, like

354
00:18:48,080 --> 00:18:50,960
Speaker 1: just a freight train barreling by now Luckily, these guys

355
00:18:50,960 --> 00:18:56,600
Speaker 1: live in the water, so of the sound is muffled

356
00:18:56,840 --> 00:18:59,080
Speaker 1: by their by their natural habitat, but you can but

357
00:18:59,080 --> 00:19:01,399
Speaker 1: they're still pretty loud out if you're walking by and

358
00:19:01,440 --> 00:19:03,119
Speaker 1: they're they're in the water. And these guys are pretty

359
00:19:03,119 --> 00:19:06,560
Speaker 1: common throughout Europe, I believe. Yeah, yeah they are. And

360
00:19:06,760 --> 00:19:10,000
Speaker 1: uh so that of course leads us to a really

361
00:19:10,400 --> 00:19:14,240
Speaker 1: wily insect, and this is the tiger mom Yeah. These

362
00:19:14,280 --> 00:19:16,679
Speaker 1: other insects we've been talking about, they're largely talking to

363
00:19:16,720 --> 00:19:19,280
Speaker 1: each other. It's largely a matter of mating or occasionally,

364
00:19:19,320 --> 00:19:21,600
Speaker 1: as with this Kida's saying, get your hands off of

365
00:19:21,600 --> 00:19:22,800
Speaker 1: me and put me back in that tree so I

366
00:19:22,840 --> 00:19:26,040
Speaker 1: can do it. Um. But in this case, the tiger

367
00:19:26,080 --> 00:19:28,240
Speaker 1: moth is doing doing something a lot more subtle and

368
00:19:28,240 --> 00:19:31,280
Speaker 1: a lot more fascinating. Yeah, I mean, because it's talking

369
00:19:31,320 --> 00:19:37,320
Speaker 1: to another species. Uh specifically it's predator, a bat, and

370
00:19:37,480 --> 00:19:42,040
Speaker 1: it is making its little song. They think, our researchers think, uh,

371
00:19:42,359 --> 00:19:45,080
Speaker 1: it could be one of three theories. One is that

372
00:19:45,160 --> 00:19:48,320
Speaker 1: it's saying, hey, guess what, I'm poisonous. You probably don't

373
00:19:48,320 --> 00:19:50,159
Speaker 1: know this at night because you can't see any but

374
00:19:50,240 --> 00:19:52,920
Speaker 1: other people these daytime people they know that this these

375
00:19:52,960 --> 00:19:56,080
Speaker 1: markings on my wings, they indicate that I'm poisonous. But

376
00:19:56,280 --> 00:19:58,760
Speaker 1: since it's evening and you can't see this glorious pattern

377
00:19:58,800 --> 00:20:00,679
Speaker 1: on my wings, I'm just gonna tell you. So they

378
00:20:00,680 --> 00:20:04,119
Speaker 1: think that that could be one reason, uh for the

379
00:20:04,480 --> 00:20:07,800
Speaker 1: noise it makes. The second theory is that it's could

380
00:20:07,880 --> 00:20:12,160
Speaker 1: be jamming the bats sonar m. And then the third

381
00:20:12,240 --> 00:20:15,879
Speaker 1: theory is that it's kind of saying boo to the

382
00:20:15,880 --> 00:20:19,320
Speaker 1: bat um and in a sort of acoustic warning system,

383
00:20:20,200 --> 00:20:22,359
Speaker 1: I know you're here. Yeah, Like you know, the bat's

384
00:20:22,440 --> 00:20:24,600
Speaker 1: kind of honing in, hunting in and then or homing

385
00:20:24,640 --> 00:20:27,639
Speaker 1: in and it says, oh, hey, I'm here, and then

386
00:20:27,680 --> 00:20:29,560
Speaker 1: the bat kind of gets freaked out. And this is

387
00:20:29,600 --> 00:20:32,480
Speaker 1: called a startle response. And this is something that Ron

388
00:20:32,560 --> 00:20:36,000
Speaker 1: Hoy talks about um in some of his papers. He

389
00:20:36,119 --> 00:20:38,040
Speaker 1: was on the panels NY. He was on the panel.

390
00:20:38,080 --> 00:20:40,480
Speaker 1: He was great because he brought a number of acoustic

391
00:20:40,480 --> 00:20:43,800
Speaker 1: instruments with him, because I mean you also had David Rothenberg,

392
00:20:43,840 --> 00:20:47,440
Speaker 1: who again he is amazing. He's a philosopher, a musician

393
00:20:47,440 --> 00:20:50,399
Speaker 1: and author um in New Jersey, I believe, and he

394
00:20:50,560 --> 00:20:53,960
Speaker 1: um he's all about like taking natural sounds in the

395
00:20:53,960 --> 00:20:56,600
Speaker 1: world things, sounds of insects, the sounds of whales, and

396
00:20:56,640 --> 00:20:58,880
Speaker 1: the doing of his own stuff. So he actually had

397
00:20:59,440 --> 00:21:01,760
Speaker 1: a container or of cicadas. He has taken him out,

398
00:21:02,240 --> 00:21:04,439
Speaker 1: sticking him on the microphone, and then he's playing like

399
00:21:04,600 --> 00:21:07,640
Speaker 1: an alto sacks. And then he had this fabulous percussionists

400
00:21:07,640 --> 00:21:11,840
Speaker 1: there that was doing kind of um my, my musical

401
00:21:11,840 --> 00:21:15,320
Speaker 1: knowledge isn't sufficient enough to describe it, but very um

402
00:21:15,800 --> 00:21:19,080
Speaker 1: this guy's percussion would not have been out of place

403
00:21:19,119 --> 00:21:21,960
Speaker 1: in a yoga studio or or or it's some sort

404
00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:25,080
Speaker 1: of tribal kind of performance. So it was it was

405
00:21:25,119 --> 00:21:28,760
Speaker 1: a very very cool little little gig you put together there.

406
00:21:28,880 --> 00:21:31,720
Speaker 1: But then yeah, Hoy brought all these different woodwind instruments,

407
00:21:31,800 --> 00:21:35,199
Speaker 1: not woodwind, um would percussion instruments to to demonstrate the

408
00:21:35,240 --> 00:21:40,399
Speaker 1: different forms of stridulation that go on with these different insects. Okay,

409
00:21:40,440 --> 00:21:41,800
Speaker 1: so you can kind of get the idea of the

410
00:21:41,840 --> 00:21:45,159
Speaker 1: frequency or the length. Yeah. So by the end of

411
00:21:45,200 --> 00:21:48,600
Speaker 1: it you had Rothenberg performing and then Hoy had passed

412
00:21:48,640 --> 00:21:51,359
Speaker 1: out all of his his toys to the other panelists

413
00:21:51,359 --> 00:21:54,800
Speaker 1: and they were all strumming or or or shaking or

414
00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:58,240
Speaker 1: rubbing sticks together to make the kind of jam with

415
00:21:58,280 --> 00:22:01,880
Speaker 1: the insects again the woods suck just came out? Yeah, yeah,

416
00:22:02,119 --> 00:22:04,840
Speaker 1: with the insects comes out would suck. Um. What I

417
00:22:04,880 --> 00:22:07,000
Speaker 1: like about David Rothenberg is that he has described as

418
00:22:07,040 --> 00:22:10,680
Speaker 1: an interspecies musician and there's actually a great radio lab

419
00:22:11,520 --> 00:22:15,000
Speaker 1: with him, and it's talking more specifically about Cicada's but

420
00:22:15,119 --> 00:22:18,879
Speaker 1: also about some of his work with the clarinet in

421
00:22:19,040 --> 00:22:22,560
Speaker 1: whales in this sort of column response that happens between

422
00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:25,400
Speaker 1: him and whales when he's playing the clarinets really interesting.

423
00:22:26,520 --> 00:22:28,440
Speaker 1: So there you have it. It's just an insight into

424
00:22:28,480 --> 00:22:30,840
Speaker 1: some of the sounds going on out there. Certainly not

425
00:22:30,920 --> 00:22:32,720
Speaker 1: all of them, and there are a number of other

426
00:22:32,760 --> 00:22:35,320
Speaker 1: creatures that that have some really interesting sounds going on.

427
00:22:35,600 --> 00:22:37,960
Speaker 1: It's worth noting the mosquitoes when they will twining. You

428
00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:41,440
Speaker 1: heard those of the lady mosquitoes, uh talking and and

429
00:22:41,880 --> 00:22:44,560
Speaker 1: potentially trying to mate as well with their insects. Song

430
00:22:45,000 --> 00:22:49,280
Speaker 1: jumping spiders have some phenomenal singing dancing routines that they

431
00:22:49,320 --> 00:22:52,120
Speaker 1: do that we can't hear with with our with our

432
00:22:52,119 --> 00:22:55,080
Speaker 1: ears without the actually uh you know, amplifying the sound,

433
00:22:55,080 --> 00:22:57,399
Speaker 1: but it's still fascinating. Be sure to look up some

434
00:22:57,480 --> 00:23:00,360
Speaker 1: videos of that if you haven't seen it. Uh. Yeah,

435
00:23:00,359 --> 00:23:03,160
Speaker 1: hopefully everyone will think a little a little bit differently

436
00:23:03,200 --> 00:23:06,320
Speaker 1: about the insect a company in the night, because it's

437
00:23:06,720 --> 00:23:10,159
Speaker 1: it's not just a background noise, you know, it is,

438
00:23:10,200 --> 00:23:13,480
Speaker 1: it's this massive communication and uh. And that the sounds

439
00:23:13,480 --> 00:23:16,800
Speaker 1: are being produced at a very small level, uh, with

440
00:23:16,840 --> 00:23:20,560
Speaker 1: some with some really interesting instruments. Indeed, and if you

441
00:23:20,600 --> 00:23:23,520
Speaker 1: want to check out some more insect sounds, go to

442
00:23:23,680 --> 00:23:28,000
Speaker 1: BBC's program called Nature in the episode is called Insect

443
00:23:28,160 --> 00:23:30,840
Speaker 1: Soundings and you can get some more clips of various

444
00:23:30,840 --> 00:23:35,320
Speaker 1: other insects and their role in nature. Uh. If you

445
00:23:35,359 --> 00:23:36,720
Speaker 1: have something you would like to share with us, if

446
00:23:36,720 --> 00:23:39,560
Speaker 1: you'd like to talk about what the cada sound sounds

447
00:23:39,600 --> 00:23:42,200
Speaker 1: mean to you, what insect sounds mean to you? What

448
00:23:42,200 --> 00:23:44,320
Speaker 1: what is your relationship with crickets? Did you grow up

449
00:23:44,520 --> 00:23:46,720
Speaker 1: hearing that they were good luck and them in your house?

450
00:23:46,760 --> 00:23:48,640
Speaker 1: Do you keep them a little cages? Do you keep

451
00:23:48,640 --> 00:23:51,320
Speaker 1: them in your pocket? Uh? Let us know. We'd love

452
00:23:51,359 --> 00:23:52,879
Speaker 1: to hear from you. You can find us in a

453
00:23:52,920 --> 00:23:56,359
Speaker 1: number of places online. We have Facebook, we have Twitter,

454
00:23:56,800 --> 00:23:58,760
Speaker 1: we have Tumbler, and you can of course find us

455
00:23:58,760 --> 00:24:00,719
Speaker 1: at our website as well. Which staff to bow your

456
00:24:00,720 --> 00:24:02,840
Speaker 1: Mind dot com, and you can always drop us a

457
00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:10,119
Speaker 1: line a blow the mind at discovery dot com for

458
00:24:10,240 --> 00:24:12,560
Speaker 1: more on this and thousands of other topics. Does it,

459
00:24:12,640 --> 00:24:19,919
Speaker 1: How stuff Works dot com