The Cricket - Nature's Violinist

The Lighter Side of Human Nature 

The Cricket - Nature's Violinist

Dr Abe V Rotor 

                                                  Field cricket (Acheta bimaculata) fiddling

Aesop called you like your kin, the grasshopper, sluggard,

     for heeding not your want for the rainy day;
In summer you fiddle all day and the whole night through,
     lilting the spirits of those at work or play.

I say, what could earn best their place and their existence,
     but to unburden the load of the world;
etching a living, each thought nothing else but living,
     than sweet violin and a little kind word? ~ 

Listen keenly the music of the crickets on a dark night.

and analyze their cacophony of sounds - from mating 

calls, territorial warnings, to battle cries. 

Another fiddler of Nature is the long-horned grasshopper (Phaneroptera furcifera).  Note personal dedication of the book - Light from the Old Arch - for the late Monsignor Danny Sta Maria.  He did not live long to receive the book.  He was one of the early victims of COVID-19.

Author plays the violin before an aquarium of Oscar fish.  At home, QC Do fish understand human music?