# Crickets, My God They're Everywhere!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crickets-my-god-theyre-everywhere/667364
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [August 28, 2013, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crickets-my-god-theyre-everywhere/667364 "2013-08-28T02:54:14Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@obbn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/obbn)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2013, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crickets-my-god-theyre-everywhere/667364/1 "2013-08-28T02:54:14Z")
Hello Everyone,
We live out in the country on five aces. Near the fence line on our property is a clump of trees and bushes. In this area you can hear crickets making their high pitched whine. Sometimes the sound level is so high I find myself talking louder to compensate. Now looking at the size of a single cricket its obvious that this crescendo isn’t caused by one out even two of them. Thinking about it, the sound seems to be coming from everywhere, not a specific spot so it’s hard to imagine even a hundred crickets making this sound. So how many are there per typical acre of land? A thousand, a hundred thousand, a million? If they ever develop thumbs are we humans goners?
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### Author:  [@JBDivmstr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JBDivmstr)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2013, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crickets-my-god-theyre-everywhere/667364/2 "2013-08-28T03:35:49Z")
Not sure of the ‘average’ density of crickets/acre, (crickets/sq yd?) but I suspect that it varies widely from one year to the next.
Back in the early 80’s I worked on a job down close to Corpus Christi, Tx. The cricket population suddenly skyrocketed (IIRC, it was early spring) to the point of making it hazardous to drive on certain roads, and very ‘icky’ to _walk_.
It was reported to be an ‘anomally’, (in that it wasn’t like that _every_ year) and was over seemingly as quickly as it began. YMMV
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### Author:  [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2013, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crickets-my-god-theyre-everywhere/667364/3 "2013-08-28T03:42:55Z")
When are you people going to learn?
If a thread is about crickets, you _don’t_ answer.
😉
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### Author:  [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2013, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crickets-my-god-theyre-everywhere/667364/4 "2013-08-28T03:43:50Z")
[Dip them in chocolate](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-yz5-asWeExs/UUhQ3RWLDFI/AAAAAAAAW-k/B8LrKqYkhq8/s400/Chocolate+covered+crickets+choco+chirpies.jpg)and throw a party. Problem solved.
Bon Appétit.
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### Author:  [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2013, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crickets-my-god-theyre-everywhere/667364/5 "2013-08-28T03:53:02Z")
> [@obbn](#):
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> So how many are there per typical acre of land?
Their density depends upon the vegetation they are inhabiting at the time. The same applies to chirping ability or singing, buddy. Holly?
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### Author:  [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2013, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crickets-my-god-theyre-everywhere/667364/6 "2013-08-28T06:09:40Z")
I was thinking about this the other day whilst walking across a large field of long grass. There were a dozen sheep in the field, but I’m fairly sure the total weight of grasshoppers in the same field would have been greater.
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### Author:  [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2013, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crickets-my-god-theyre-everywhere/667364/7 "2013-08-28T06:19:03Z")
I always enjoy hearing the crickets at the bait & tackle shop. It’s kind of soothing.
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### Author:  [@Sudden\_Kestrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sudden_Kestrel)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2013, 9:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crickets-my-god-theyre-everywhere/667364/8 "2013-08-28T09:08:02Z")
We have a bounty of crickets this year and also of katydids. I think the katydids are even louder than the crickets. There’s just the usual amount of grasshoppers.
I’m puzzled that I haven’t heard a single cicada. I can’t remember the last time we went without cicadas in August.