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Originally Posted by omdi  I own a tarantula and buy silent crickets for it..or so the box says.the last ones are anything but silent.I have noticed that some are much larger than others and suspect these to be the culprits. can anyone explain what makes a cricket silent as I always thought that they chirped by rubbing.their legs together. |
Crickets rub their fore-wings together to make a sound (stridulate). Grasshoppers (or most of them) rub pegs on a hind femur onto a ridge on the fore-wing (probably what you are thinking of).