Insect Lore

"Insect Thermometers"

Insect sensitivity to temperature is well known.Grasshoppers and crickets are the most obvious and found in most, if not all, locations in North America. The sounds a grasshopper makes is the loudest at 95 degrees. They cannot fly when the temperature is below 45 degrees fahrenheit and are unable to chirp when the temperature is below 62 degrees F. Crickets are the most accurate of all insects regarding temperature changes. The common house cricket can give you the temperature in the house, or the temperature in their location. Count the chirps the cricket makes in 14 seconds and add 40 to that and you will have the temperature. Another species of the cricket family called the "white tree cricket" chirps four times per minute for every degree of temperature above 40 degrees F.

If you are a fisherman then you probably know early morning bank fishing is safe from the ant populations until the temperature is above 55 degrees fahrenheit...and unlike humans will return to their homes when the temperature reaches 105 degrees.

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