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Images from Singing Insects of North America. 491pbl, Anurogryllus arboreus staked burrows studied by T.J. Walker

Image of Common Short-tailed Cricket

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Photograph of staked burrows, Gainesville, FL, by T.J. Walker, University of Florida. Each stake is the home borrow of a male. Males often call first at their home burrows. If a male attracts a female, they mate in his burrow, she takes the burrow, and he leaves. If he attracts no female, he nonetheless abandons his home burrow in a few days and each evening first calls from a perch and then searches for females in their burrows.

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