tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19288377.post2698292032483699471..comments2024-03-09T18:27:46.282+11:00Comments on The Nature of Robertson: Another day, another Cricket.Denis Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10031115992910569116noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19288377.post-43210165752724597042007-12-28T12:06:00.000+11:002007-12-28T12:06:00.000+11:00>>>If you were up a ladder poking a camera up its ...>>>If you were up a ladder poking a camera up its nose, then you qualified as a threat - an deserved to have the noise made at you.<<<<BR/><BR/>No doubt you are right Denis :)<BR/><BR/>It must take a fair bit to rile them as this is the only time I have heard the sound, and I have seen 5 crickets. In all cases I have shoved a camera in their face, but only been threatened that once.<BR/><BR/>He lifted his rear-end and emitted the noise, not unlike a softer version of the noise a rattle-snake (on tv) makes.<BR/><BR/>It was a most interesting encounter.<BR/><BR/>GayeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19288377.post-77863243784895136782007-12-28T10:13:00.000+11:002007-12-28T10:13:00.000+11:00Hi GayeI have not knowingly heard the "raspy" soun...Hi Gaye<BR/><BR/>I have not knowingly heard the "raspy" sound, but I have read about it in the linked AusMus Facts Sheet.<BR/><BR/>It says: "All members of this large group have a mechanism that produces a raspy sound, which they may use as a defence when disturbed."<BR/><BR/>If you were up a ladder poking a camera up its nose, then you qualified as a threat - an deserved to have the noise made at you.<BR/><BR/>My first specimen was in my kitchen, and allowed me to carry it around on a knife (in a non-threatening manner). And it did not make any threatening noises at all.<BR/><BR/>Cheers<BR/><BR/>DenisDenis Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10031115992910569116noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19288377.post-48750439653742290782007-12-28T05:40:00.000+11:002007-12-28T05:40:00.000+11:00chuckle chuckle - agree completely about the crick...chuckle chuckle - agree completely about the cricket (bat'n'ball stuff), yatching and tennis. But at least we are spared the chest-banging ruckus of football in all its forms at this time of year - I feel sure that if my other half was a devoted football fan that it would be valid reason for divorce ;)<BR/><BR/>I have also wondered about the exercise of getting underground and back out again with those lengthy antennae. And I share your fascination for these formidable creatures.<BR/><BR/>Have you heard the sound they make that gives them the name "raspy" cricket? It's a rapid sandpapery/rattle(ish) sound and was quite intimidating the first time I heard it (which, by the way, was when I was up a ladder inspecting this impessive cricket-looking creature on the eaves of the house).<BR/><BR/>On this introductory meeting, my cricket (which was wingless at the time) wandered through a spider's web, and then I watched him clean and preen his antennae - now I can tell you that that was ultimately more exciting and rewarding than watching the cricket on the telly.<BR/><BR/>:)<BR/><BR/>cheers<BR/>GayeGayehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02899430268722758947noreply@blogger.com