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Washington DC -- Baltimore Cricket Crawl
	A CALL FOR CITIZEN SCIENTISTS, ARTISTS, NATURALISTS, AND SCIENTISTS NYC Cricket Crawl 2009 An aural expedition and a celebration fof life in the leafy jungles of urban and suburban NYC and surrounding area

The survey was completed on the 12th of September, 2009. Data have been processed and a more detailed analysis will be completed by early 2010. A final report on the event is now complete and included suggestions for others who would like to replicate the event. We are encouraging other groups to do similar surveys in their towns, cities, parks, counties, states, and provinces. Want to talk to someone about starting a Cricket Crawl project in your area or about cricket and katydid surveys? Call Sam Droege at 301-497-5840 or sdroege@usgs.gov.

Expeditions page listing the expeditions that were mounted by various organizations during the count.

Read our final report

General Information
Why Should I Care?

Instructions for the September 12th, 2009 Count
Here's How to Count and How to Send in Your Results

List of the 7 Targets Crickets and Katydids with Links to Calls and Pictures

Results
Mapping of Results 2009 · 2012
Real-time Night of Count Blog and an ongoing exploration of New York crickets and katydids by blogger Ken Kostel
The Art/Science/Citizen Report of the Results
Submitted photos from counters
End of the Night Initial Report of Counts

Oh, Yes, My, My, The mystery of the missing Katydid of New York City
Read about the real reason we did this survey...

Katydids are not Optional

Cricket Crawls | Top | Instructions | Downloadable Data Form | Discover Life

Links to other sites

Face us...
Become a fan of Cricket Crawl on Facebook
Spread the word...send an annoucement/event for the Cricket Crawl to your friends.

Cricket and Katydid Web Sites
Songs of Insects - Sounds files and Pictures
Singing Insects of North America
The original Manhattan Island
Poems of Crickets

Collaborators' Web Sites
Melisa Beveridge (Scientific Illustrator) Our Logo Designer
Kim Phillips' Katydid Pictures
Gerry Gomez Pearlberg, Facebook Fan page helper and Global Swarming Honeybees blogger.
Drop.io for increasing Friend of Cricket Crawl John Hudak's drop boxes to handle Cricket Crawl messages and email

Organizers' Web Sites
American Museum of Natural History, Center for Biodiversity and Conservation
Appalachian Mountain Club (AMC), New York - North Jersey Young Members
New York Entomological Society
Proteus Gowanus Interdisciplinary Gallery and Reading Room
USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center
Discover Life

Cricket and Katydid Art and Literature
Media Coverage
Wired Magazine Online
Brian Lehrer Show
NPR Evening Edition
NY Times
Scientific American
NPR Evening Edition (2nd Story)
NY1 TV
New York Daily News
Village Voice
Voice of America
A Podcast from Florence Blanchard, Bohemian Biology

Crickets are not Optional

Cricket Crawls | Top | Instructions | Downloadable Data Form | Discover Life

NYC Cricket Crawl