Pied Piper for crickets - using cricket sounds

[lnaminneci]

I have become, to an extent, a Pied Piper to my feeder crickets.

I was watching my 4 Pacific Chorus Frogs as they were catching and stalking crickets. I don't have a light on their temp. housing so I was looking at them with a toy flashlight. The flashlight has different buttons on it for playing different sounds, such as: Forest sounds, cricket sounds, babbling brook, campfire, owl, coyotes, bear, ect...... I decided to play the cricket sounds thinking that it would make my frogs even more ready for the hunt. I then noticed where ever I was looking with the flashlight, the crickets would follow. I turned the light off on the flashlight. I realized they were following the cricket sounds.
I tested it and moved it to one end, they went there. I then moved it to the opposite side of the habitat. They would move to that side within a matter of seconds. I now use this flashlight, with cricket sounds playing, to get my crickets to come out of hiding so that my frogs can find them and eat them. Or have the crickets follow and take them to where my frogs are hiding.

I hope this information will be found useful and others can try it to see if it works for them.

Try it, you might like it!

[Ebony]

Wow! That's so cool and very interesting. Excellent discovery.You could start a new business. It would certainly make life easier for cricket breeders as well I would imagine and for those breeders that have escapees. Lol

[Paul Rust]

This will be great for catching wild crickets. I hope my neighbors don't mind the loudspeaker cranking out cricket chirps all night long.