Cricket's summer song making a comeback (BBC)

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By Helen Briggs
BBC News
29 July 2017
From the section Science & Environment

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In the last century, changes in land management and loss of natural habitat have led to a dramatic decline of the insect across northern Europe.
By the 1980s in the UK, field cricket numbers had dropped to fewer than 100 individuals, all found only in one location in West Sussex.
A decade later, conservationists began catching young field crickets and moving them to new sites across Surrey, Sussex and Hampshire in a bid to save them.
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Mike Coates says nowhere near enough people get to hear the sound of the male singing cricket, as there are probably only eight populations left in the UK.
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A colony of around 300 has become established from only 12 individuals, within five years, at the RSPB's Farnham Heath reserve. This has become one of the largest field cricket populations in England.
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more: http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-40587311



Crickets are endangered ? Crickets ? SRSLY ?

[Cracklin Charlie]

1. Between the squirrels, crickets, cicadas and others.

Hubs and I can't hear each other talk outside at night.

I gotta do something about those squirrels.