On an evolutionary tree, spiny lobsters sit near crickets. Yet musically, the crustaceans belong closer to a person torturing a violin.
Crickets make the sound track for summer by rubbing a hardened scraper, against a patch of ridges. One of the insects forewings carries the scraper and the other has the ridges.
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