When and where does a cricket sing
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There's nothing more maddening than trying to find a chirping cricket in your basement. It will sing loudly and ceaselessly, until the moment you approach, when it abruptly stops chirping. How does a cricket know when to stop chirping?
Why Do Crickets Chirp?
Male crickets are the communicators of the species. The females wait for the songs of the males to spur on the mating ritual. Female crickets do not chirp. Males make a chirping sound by rubbing the edges of their forewings together to call for female mates. This rubbing together is called stridulation.
Some species of crickets have several songs in their repertoire. The calling song attracts females and repels other males, and is fairly loud. The calling sound is only used during the day in safe places: crickets aggregate at dawn without the use of acoustic calling. These groupings are typically not leks, because they don't assemble for the sole purpose of mating.
The cricket courting song is used when a female cricket is near and the song encourages her to mate with the caller. An aggressive song allows male crickets to interact aggressively with one another, to establish territory and claim access to females present in that territory. A triumphal song is produced for a brief period after a successful mating and may reinforce the mating bond to encourage the female to lay some eggs rather than find another male.
Crickets are known for their chirping sound, and only male crickets do chirping.
And they do chirping only at night time, just to find their female mates or to scare off other cricket counterparts.....