A decade or so ago, while working in a bookshop and exploring the back catalogues of academic publishers, I came across a double CD of recordings of crickets. It was amazing. A few years before that I came across Money Mark‘s track Insects Are All Around Us which does the in-retrospect-obvious thing of sampling cricket chirps for the beat.

So over the years recordings of crickets have appeared in my life and I welcome the addition of the Songs of Insects website and their awesome soundboard. Click on an insect to hear its song. I particularly recommend the 17 Year Cicada.

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