• Question: Can you tell the temperature by listening to the chirping of a cricket?

    Asked by caroline97 to Kat, Andrew, Katie, Sadaf on 21 Jun 2013.
    • Photo: Andrew Swale

      Andrew Swale answered on 21 Jun 2013:


      Apparently this is indeed true

      The frequency of chirping differs with temperature!

      The general rule is to count the number of chirps that occur in a 15 second period and then add 37 to this number – this should give you an approximation of the temperature in degrees fahrenheit!

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