74 Insect Life : Its Why and Wherefore 
of the kitchen by working hard to clean 
up while she is in bed. Perhaps some of 
the hard-hearted will feel more lenient 
when reminded that the shrill call is a 
mating, sweethearting, sentimental call, 
the soft sweet cooing note often meaning 
that the lady love has been discovered 
and is being gently smoothed by his long 
antennae. 
Mole Cricket. — A smaller cricket is also 
met with in woods, and is generally termed 
the wood cricket, while there is another 
species known as the mole cricket, so called 
from the remarkable traits which it 
develops in common with the mole. It 
burrows in the ground by means of its 
front legs, which are peculiarly adapted 
for the process. Generally it works in 
sandy, gritty, or loose soil, as being more 
easily overcome. Like the mole, it works 
first downwards, and then sends out a 
number of horizontal galleries. As these 
galleries are only a little distance beneath 
the surface it necessarily comes about that 
roots and tender shoots of plants are 
destroyed. The insect also preys upon a 
number of these. A little chamber is 
