Is there an entomologist in the house?

[reprise]

This "fact" was published in an educational magazine distributed to primary school children; can someone who knows about insects confirm or deny its validity?

If you could count the number of times a cricket chirps in one minute, divide by 2, add 9 and divide by 2 again, you would have the correct temperature in Celsius degrees.

It sounds very urban legendish to me.

[Khalid01]

Googling "crickets temperature" gave me this link:

http://www.mercola.com/2000/jul/16/crickets.htm

To summarize, yes.

[SquishyDave]

Who'd a thunk it?

I love it when nature comes out of left field like this :)

I am throwing away my reduntant thermometre and buying a stopwatch and a calculator.