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Chirping of Cricket

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C an you imagine a night without the very common chirping sound around you? or can you think of  a night scene in a horror or normal drama / cinema /theater without the chirping noise ? I think it can only  be compared to a cooked food without salt.  In the lap of nature there are various types of living beings  with their unique identity. Cricket is one of those who creates a background music around us  from dusk to dawn. The sound created by  crickets is referred to as chirping; the scientific name is stridulation. Only the male crickets chirp. The sound is created by the stridulatory organ, a large vein running along the bottom of each wing, covered with "teeth" (serration) much like a comb. The chirping sound is created by running the top of one wing along the teeth at the bottom of the other wing. Crickets have tympanic membranes situated just under the middle joint of each front leg (or knee...