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Fun Facts
5 Facts About Crickets
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Are we connected to our food in a meaningful way, or are we simply raising food in order not to starve? Love Crickets, Save the Planet is a live cricket farm installation from artists Jude Tallichet and Adam Chad Brody on view in CMA’s Bridge Space. By posing the question “what is a home?” this installation considers how we might invite bugs into our homes as friends instead of foes, fostering a new understanding of how our food factors into a larger system. Learn six fun facts about crickets below.
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Crickets can leap as far as two feet.
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They have more protein than beef or salmon.
3.
Male crickets sing songs with their wings.
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Crickets use much less land, water, and food than other animals.
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Crickets search for food with their long antennae.
