Sentences with phrase «tree cricket»

But if that's the case, U of T Scarborough researchers wondered what happens when the temperature changes, because that affects the frequency of the tree cricket's song.

Insects such as the tree cricket solve this problem by singing and listening at a single unique pitch.

As temperature changes, tree cricket ears adjust at a cellular and therefore mechanical level to match the changing frequency of the song.

When it gets cold out, tree cricket chirps drop in frequency by as much as an octave.

Or maybe a singing insect, like a tree cricket.

Like most of their relatives, South Indian tree crickets (Oecanthus henryi) woo mates by rubbing their wings together, causing them to vibrate and produce sound much like a guitar string.

Not exact matches

Crickets are chirpin'the water is high There's a soft cotton dress on the line hangin» dry Window wide open African trees Bent over backwards from a hurricane breeze Not a word of goodbye not even a note She gone with the man in the long black coat.

Attenborough aims to persuade first through the detail and intimacy of his account of insect life: the female bumble bee's patient construction of the chamber in which she lays her eggs; the cooperative relationship between African acacias and the ants that make «mansions» in the «bloated and hollow» bases of the tree's protective spines (and sting the muzzles of grazing predators, driving them away); the cunning design of the mole cricket's burrow, which amplifies the male's mating song so that, «on a windless night, he can be heard from nearly half a mile away.»

«His favorite occupation,» writes his disciple, Dr. Bucke, «seemed to be strolling or sauntering about outdoors by himself, looking at the grass, the trees, the flowers, the vistas of light, the varying aspects of the sky, and listening to the birds, the crickets, the tree frogs, and all the hundreds of natural sounds.

The tire swing on the giant oak tree spun gently, house cats warily slinking around roots and into the giant shade the house drew over the yard; tabbies scouring for crickets and mice.

I think we had a parallel Thanksgiving... I also live in San Francisco but grew up in the hills of Saratoga... so I drove down there to my parents» house, which I love for all the sounds of crickets and cicadas and the smell of eucalyptus and pine trees!

Periodic rains will take hold: Grass will sprout, trees will flower and farmers will sow their peanut seeds and pray for the rain to keep coming and for the crickets to stay away.

«They sound more like an insect, such as a cricket, or like a tree frog.»

«We heard prominent high - pitch sounds that sounded perhaps like a cricket or a tree frog,» Mello says.

The answers to my questions arrive with the sounds of the trees as they sway in the wind, the river as it moves below in the canyon, and the crickets as they sing in the early evening.

I do a lot of theatre with the Montford Park Players, because what is better than performing Shakespeare outside while listening to the crickets and watching the fire flies in the trees.

Set amidst tree - lined boulevards in an expat area around 10 miles east of the city centre, the school boasts rugby pitches and a cricket square alongside other facilities ranging from a 350 - seat theatre to art, music and design and technology studios.

This book contains all the Christmas books and stories written by Dickens.The Christmas Books: - A Christmas Carol - The Chimes - The Cricket on the Hearth - The Battle of Life - The Haunted Man and the Ghost's BargainThe Christmas Stories: - A Christmas Tree - What Christmas is as we Grow Older - The Poor Relation's Story - The Child's Story - The Schoolboy's Story - Nobody's Story - The Seven Poor Travellers - The Holly - Tree - Wreck of the Golden Mary - The Perils of Certain English Prisoners - Going into Society - A Message From the Sea - Tom Tiddler's Ground - Somebody's Luggage - Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings - Mrs. Lirriper's Legacy - Doctor Marigold - Mugby Junction - No Thoroughfare...

If you want to have a White's Tree Frog you will need to be comfortable with feeding live crickets and mealworms which is the appropriate diet for this frog.

White's tree frogs typically don't mind being held and it is fun to watch them chase down the crickets they eat.

Green Tree Frogs eat a live carnivorous diet of insects, usually crickets and meal worms.

On our way, we found green tree frogs, central newts, a young grey rat snake, Americanus millipedes and plenty of small cricket frogs.

Roll up your bamboo blinds and soak up the surrounding views of tropical trees and food gardens from your daybed or outside terrace, and fall asleep to the chorus of crickets and frogs by night.

The smaller - scale experiences are unbeatable too: playing cricket on the beach, exploring plantation houses and tropical gardens, sipping a cold beer under a palm tree and having a laugh with the locals.

Waking up with the sounds of crickets, birds, gecko's and dancing leafs and sleeping under a gigantic ancient holy tree.

Where I live back in the jungle with crickets and birds in the trees, feeding and singing along with the breeze, oh it is lovely here in Belize.

We spent a long weekend in Pangkor Laut after a wedding in Ipoh and welcomed with open arms the jungle chalets that seem to emerge over lush trees, undergrowth and creepers, encased with the sound of a million crickets.

Tales of cricket and Yew Tree Farm may be evocative, but humility and wisdom are better aspirations for judges than drawing pictures in the sky.

Other tenants include Cricket, Dollar Tree, Michaels, Payless Shoes and Mor Furniture.