{"id":22574,"date":"2017-08-11T05:32:12","date_gmt":"2017-08-11T05:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=22574"},"modified":"2017-08-11T05:32:12","modified_gmt":"2017-08-11T05:32:12","slug":"field-crickets-spring-and-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/field-crickets-spring-and-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"Field crickets: spring and fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Tutoring math, the tutor has stumbled into the world of crickets.<\/h1>\n<p>I&#8217;ve lived on the Atlantic and the Pacific coasts of Canada. Everywhere I&#8217;ve lived, I recall that crickets start chirping sometime in July.<\/p>\n<p>Why not until then? I&#8217;ve reasoned that chirping takes a fair amount of strength, so the cricket can&#8217;t do it when first hatched. Sometime in July&#8217;s later half, the cricket graduates to chirping. Such has always been my suspicion.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"?p=22556\">last night&#8217;s post<\/a>, my attention was captured by crickets. Research led me to field crickets, and the unexpected discovery of spring and fall varieties.<\/p>\n<p>Spring field crickets start chirping in late spring. However, looking at the range map, they don&#8217;t live anywhere I&#8217;ve. In contrast, fall field crickets &#8211; who begin chirping exactly when I&#8217;ve mentioned &#8211; live on Canada&#8217;s Atlantic and Pacific coasts.<\/p>\n<p>Field crickets, we love you.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/songsofinsects.com\/crickets\/spring-and-fall-field-crickets\">songsofinsects.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tutoring math, the tutor has stumbled into the world of crickets. I&#8217;ve lived on the Atlantic and the Pacific coasts of Canada. Everywhere I&#8217;ve lived, I recall that crickets start chirping sometime in July. Why not until then? I&#8217;ve reasoned &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/field-crickets-spring-and-fall\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Field crickets: spring and fall<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,181],"tags":[2436,2435],"class_list":["post-22574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biology","category-lifestyle","tag-fall-field-crickets","tag-why-crickets-might-only-start-chirping-in-late-july"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22574"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22603,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22574\/revisions\/22603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}