# When do your crickets start chirping?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-do-your-crickets-start-chirping/695137
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [August 9, 2014, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-do-your-crickets-start-chirping/695137 "2014-08-09T01:20:03Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2014, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-do-your-crickets-start-chirping/695137/1 "2014-08-09T01:20:03Z")
If you live in a place that has crickets, at what time of year do those crickets start chirping?
The ones we have here in Montreal don’t seem to start until the end of July/beginning of August. They go on until at least the beginning of September, perhaps a bit later. When I went to New Jersey in May I was surprised to be hearing their crickets already.
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### Author:  [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2014, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-do-your-crickets-start-chirping/695137/2 "2014-08-09T01:45:01Z")
They’ve usually started by about Christmas.
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### Author:  [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2014, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-do-your-crickets-start-chirping/695137/3 "2014-08-09T14:36:21Z")
I wonder if there are places where they chirp year-round.
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### Author:  [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2014, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-do-your-crickets-start-chirping/695137/4 "2014-08-09T14:47:59Z")
The second half of August, about 2 weeks before school starts. It always seemed like natures way of saying, “Summer’s over. Are you ready for school? Do you have your supplies? Is all your summer reading done?”
They are something to listen to while trying to walk on the marbles that are large oak acorns…
…acorn fight…!😃
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### Author:  [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2014, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-do-your-crickets-start-chirping/695137/5 "2014-08-09T17:34:36Z")
Huh, here crickets chirp pretty much all the time from spring to fall.
Crickets only live 6-10 weeks and chirp in the last few.
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### Author:  [@Lorene89095](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lorene89095)
#### Post date: [August 9, 2014, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-do-your-crickets-start-chirping/695137/6 "2014-08-09T18:34:49Z")
As soon as it’s dark,or they get inside and somewhere the cats can’t get to them! Then,when it’s October,we have swarms!! They stink and make some parkinglots slippery. Google Texas cricket invasion.
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### Author:  [@Mallory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mallory)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2014, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-do-your-crickets-start-chirping/695137/7 "2014-08-10T00:44:53Z")
Starting about now in August, until frost, which is usually end of October/beginning of November. The speed of their chirps slows down in cooler weather, so by the end of October there’s usually one lone cricket going chirp…chirp…chirp.
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### Author:  [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)
#### Post date: [August 10, 2014, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-do-your-crickets-start-chirping/695137/8 "2014-08-10T01:15:02Z")
Usually, I hear them after I toss out a really funny one-liner.
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See?