Dolbear (1897) was the first to publish a formula for how the rate of chirping of crickets varies with temperature, using the tree cricket Oecanthus fultoni.
Details
Subsequent research by Dolbear and others have published additional formulae for other species: Oecanthus fultoni (Fulton 1925) , Oecanthus rileyi (Walker 1962) , Oecanthus alexanderi (Walker and Collins 2010) , and Oecanthus allardi (Allard 1957) .
References
Allard HA (1957).
“The stridulations of some crickets in the Dominican Republic.”
Journal Washington Academy of Sciences, 47, 150–152.
Dolbear AE (1897).
“The Cricket as a Thermometer.”
The American Naturalist, 31(371), 970–971.
ISSN 00030147, 15375323, http://www.jstor.org/stable/2453256.
Fulton BB (1925).
“Physiological variation in the snowy tree cricket, Oecanthus fultoni, De Geer.”
Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 18, 363–383.
Walker TJ (1962).
“The taxonomy and calling songs of United States tree crickets (Orthoptera: Gryllidae: Oecanthinae). I. The genus Neoxabea and the niveus and varicornis groups of the genus Oecanthus.”
Annals Entomological Society of America, 55, 303–322.
http://entnemdept.ifas.ufl.edu/walker/Buzz/s576lw62.pdf.
Walker TJ, Collins N (2010).
“New World thermometer crickets: the Oecanthus rileyi species group and a new species from North America.”
Journal of Orthoptera Research, 19(2).
ISSN 10826467, 19372426, http://www.jstor.org/stable/25822725.
Examples
dolbear(n=6)
#> species location m c min max source t n
#> 1 Oecanthus fultoni Iowa 7.7879 -30.21 15 25 Fulton, 1925 4.649520 6
#> 2 Oecanthus fultoni Oregon 9.2007 -36.53 9 28 Fulton, 1925 4.622474 6
#> 3 Oecanthus fultoni Ohio 8.2080 -38.61 18 31 Walker, 1962 5.434942 6
dolbear(t=25)
#> species location m c min max source t n
#> 1 Oecanthus fultoni Iowa 7.7879 -30.21 15 25 Fulton, 1925 25 164.4875
#> 2 Oecanthus fultoni Oregon 9.2007 -36.53 9 28 Fulton, 1925 25 193.4875
#> 3 Oecanthus fultoni Ohio 8.2080 -38.61 18 31 Walker, 1962 25 166.5900