Become a Cricket Crawler!

If you’ve got a cellphone and a good pair of ears, you can help with the first-ever comprehensive cricket census of New York City. Biologists from the US Geological Survey are asking people from the Big Apple to help them track the city’s cricket and katydid population. Participants in the NYC Cricket Crawl will go out between dusk and midnight to record cricket calls for one minute, and then immediately send their results and location to the scientists by cellphone. Timing is very important: You will have to concentrate your efforts on the 11th September (as it is expected to rain on the 12th of September). I'd go for it if I were there! Great idea!