Bell Cricket

Ethiopia 1993
Bell Cricket
Homoeogryllus xanthographus
(Cachoplistidae)


Japanese Bell Cricket
Homoeogryllus japanicus
(Cachoplistidae)
(ORTHOPTERA)
Tree Cricket
Oecanthus indicus
(Oecanthidae)
(ORTHOPTERA)
Lychee Cricket
Xenogryllus marmoratus
(Eneopteridae)
(ORTHOPTERA)


The friend of japanese cricket or field cricket has been kept in Japan for many years, in order to enjoy a beautiful cry. There was a hobby which can let the bell cricket already cultivated personally sing, and is enjoyed in the Edo period. Moreover, although it no longer saw recently, there was also trade called an itinerant trade of the insect which cries.
How depending on which these insects cry has some which adjust each other and pronounce hind legs and a shuttlecock among the same grasshopper of an orthoptera, although the pronunciation machine in a front shuttlecock is adjusted each other and it is said that sound is made.

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