Help us count crickets and katydids in the New York City area on the
night of September 11th
A one night project for anyone interesting in crickets and katydids
How you can help: All you need are good ears, online learning of
the simple calls of 7 species, and ,of course, a cell phone.
Instructions are Located at our Web site
<http://www.discoverlife.org/cricket>www.discoverlife.org/cricket
We are also looking for collaborators in the art, poetry,
literature, and links to cricket and katydid activities, actions,
and conversation.
Note this is designed to be a project that could be replicated in
any city with singing insects....please feel free to take the idea
and recreate it locally. Results and information will be posted
back at the site.
A collaborative venture among the following organizations:
<http://www.amnh.org/>American Museum of Natural History
<http://www.amc-ny.org/>Appalachian Mountain Club (AMC), New York -
North Jersey Young Members
<http://www.nyentsoc.org/nyes1page.htm>New York Entomological Society
<http://www.proteusgowanus.com/>Proteus Gowanus Interdisciplinary
Gallery and Reading Room
<http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/>USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center
<http://www.discoverlife.org/>Discover Life
Contact Sam Droege ([email protected]) for further information.
The cricket sang,
And set the sun,
And workmen finished, one by one,
Their seam the day upon.
The low grass loaded with the dew,
The twilight stood as strangers do
With hat in hand, polite and new,
To stay as if, or go.
A vastness, as a neighbor, came,--
A wisdom without face or name,
A peace, as hemispheres at home,--
And so the night became.
- Emily Dickinson
P Crickets are not optional.
