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- Subject: Re: Eric Carle's "Very Quiet Cricket"
- From: Jeneva Burroughs <jburrhia@POP.K12.VT.US>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 04:05:11 -0500
At 06:16 PM 1/26/97 GMT, you wrote:
>
>...inaccuracy of this book (crickets chirp by rubbing their legs, not their
>wings together)...
According to The Raintree Illustrated Science Encyclopedia -- "Males
[crickets] are able to make a sound by rubbin their two front wings
together...hearing organs are on its front legs" Perhaps you are thinking
of grasshoppers -- "males and sometimes females "sing" by rubbing one rear
leg against a vein in the forewing."
Jeneva Burroughs
Learning Center Coordinator
Hiawatha Elementary
Essex Jct., VT
jburroughs@hiawatha.k12.vt.us
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