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The Birds and The Bees

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How to Collect Crickets in Hawaii

Marlene Zuck is an evolutionary biologist and behavioral ecologist who specializes in insect reproduction. She has spent a lot of time observing how crickets do it. You go outside at night and you listen for cricket song. There is a certain amount of skill involved in sound localization. And then you have to just kind of pounce with your hand, but they don't bite and it's okay.

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