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April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Scientists have discovered a hearing system component previously thought to be unique to toothed whales – such as dolphins – in insects. The team, comprised of scientists from the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Auckland, with colleagues from Plant & Food Research in New Zealand, and engineers from the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland, is challenging ideas about how a large group of...
Cell Press [ Watch The Video ] Pygmy mole crickets are known to be prodigious jumpers on land. Now, researchers reporting in the December 4th issue of Current Biology, a Cell Press publication, have found that the tiny insects have found an ingenious method to jump from the water, too. Their secret is a series of spring-loaded, oar-like paddles on their back legs. "Pygmy mole crickets have solved the most difficult task of jumping from the surface of water," says Malcolm Burrows of...
LONDON, November 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Jon Hardy and Co ltd, the owner of market leading cricket helmet brand Masuri [http://www.masuri.com ], has raised funding for the research and development of an even safer cricket helmet design. This follows concerns raised by the International Cricket Council and Federation of International Cricketers' Associations to all cricket helmet manufacturers as to the suitability of the current safety standards in batting helmets. This...
SAN DIEGO, Calif., Nov. 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Cricket today announced the availability of the 'Groove from Cricket,' the carrier's newest Muve Music Android smartphone. The phone's stylish design, popular Android operating system, and Cricket's value pricing will excite customers and entice those looking to switch to a pre-paid option or buy a second handset. With the Groove, holiday shoppers can take advantage of Cricket's unlimited music, data, talk and text Android service...
SAN DIEGO, Sept. 14, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- In support of National Telephone Discount Lifeline Awareness Week, September 10 - 16, Cricket Communications, Inc., a leading provider of innovative and value-driven wireless services, is encouraging those eligible for Lifeline to learn more about how they can stay connected to family, friends and critical emergency safety resources. The National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC), the Federal Communications Commission...
SAN DIEGO, Sept. 05, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Cricket Communications, a leading provider of innovative and value-driven wireless services, and BizBox, the inventor of "branded box" mobilized structures, today announced the first wireless carrier mobile retail store experience of its kind. Cricket's BizBox will travel throughout its West Area to festivals and other venues transforming from a mobile box into an interactive retail store experience in just minutes taking its products and...
NEW DELHI, September 3, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- This is one pitch Virat Kohli wouldn't mind hitting more centuries on. The swashbuckling new hero of Indian cricket is batting on a different wicket for Men's Health magazine's September issue-a never-before-seen kind of fashion shoot for its bi-annual Guide to Style section titled 'Real Men, Real Style'! Shot by photographer AJ Raina, the 15-page section has Kohli modeling for the cover and a photo-feature inside. Talking of his...
SAN DIEGO, July 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Cricket Communications, a leading provider of innovative and value-driven wireless services, today announced its support for US Athletes with a special Muve Music playlist and Cricket's pick of the top Android(TM) Apps for keeping up on all of the action at this year's summer competition. Cricket's Muve Music subscribers can show their support for US Athletes while listening to a variety of heroic playlists on Muve Music and any Cricket...
WASHINGTON, July 16, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Cricket Communications, Inc., a leading provider of innovative and value-driven wireless services, announced today the introduction of its Cricket Lifeline Credit in the District of Columbia and Virginia. Already available in Maryland, the Cricket Lifeline Credit is a government assistance program that provides a service credit each month for eligible residents. Qualifying customers for the Cricket Lifeline Credit in Washington, D.C. and...
LONDON, June 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- This summer will be one of the greatest in British sporting history with athletes from around the world hitting England's home turf for the 2012 Olympics. But the Olympic Games will not be the only spectacle for sports fans to enjoy this summer, as England take on Australia in their first one day cricket international on 29th June, made even better with free bets [http://www.freebets.com ] available from some of the leading online...
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Katydid is the common name of insects belonging to the grasshopper family Tettigoniidae, which contains over 6,800 species. Katydid are also known as "long horned grasshoppers" and "bush crickets." The term "katydid" is used mainly in the U.S., Canada, and Australia. The name "katydid" comes from the sound produced by species of the N. American genus Pterophylla (literally "winged leaf"). The males of katydids have sound-producing (stridulating) organs located on their front wings which in...
The Jerusalem cricket (Stenopelmatus) is a genus of large, flightless insects native to western United States, along the Pacific Coast, and south into Mexico. Because of its large, human-like head, it is commonly called the nino de la tierra (Spanish for "child of the earth"), or wó see ts'inii (Navajo for "skull insect"). It is also often called the potato bug, or alternatively the old bald-headed man. Despite their name, Jerusalem crickets are not true crickets. Also, Potato bugs are...
The Orthoptera are an order of insects with incomplete metamorphosis, including the grasshoppers, crickets, locusts, and katydids. Many insects in this order produce sound (known as stridulation) by rubbing their wings against each other or their legs, the wings or legs containing rows of corrugated bumps. Their ears, located in the front legs, are interconnected in such a way that they are able to locate each other by sound. Characteristics Orthopterans have two pairs of wings - the...
