{"id":1587,"date":"2021-08-09T11:39:41","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T16:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/box2406.temp.domains\/~oecanthi\/?page_id=1587"},"modified":"2026-05-01T20:02:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T01:02:38","slug":"tool-making","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/oecanthinae.com\/?page_id=1587","title":{"rendered":"Tool making"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"font-size:24px\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong> Two-spotted tree cricket males are known to make holes in leaves in order to increase the volume of their song. <a href=\"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1111\/eth.12773\">Tree cricket baffles are manufactured tools &#8211; Mhatre &#8211; 2018 &#8211; Ethology &#8211; Wiley Online Library<\/a> <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"720\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1280 \/ 720;\" width=\"1280\" controls src=\"https:\/\/oecanthinae.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/creating-hole-2.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:24px\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>This video shows the male at the early stage of creating the hole. Although I missed the initial chewing, I made sure that any leaves inside the enclosure were free of large holes. I have found many of these finished holes, and they are generally in the same area of the leaves. This is the first time I have witnessed the initial creation of one of these holes, and was surprised that the whole process took less than 5 minutes.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>These holes were made my two Two-spotted tree cricket males. One male made the hole on the large leaf on the bottom, and another male made all 4 holes in the three leaves on the top.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>This video is near the end of the process of creating a baffle hole.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"720\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1280 \/ 720;\" width=\"1280\" controls src=\"https:\/\/oecanthinae.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Finishing-hole-1.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"787\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/box2406.temp.domains\/~oecanthi\/wp-content\/uploads\/038-2-833x1024.jpg?resize=640%2C787\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1591\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oecanthinae.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/038-2.jpg?resize=833%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 833w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oecanthinae.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/038-2.jpg?resize=244%2C300&amp;ssl=1 244w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oecanthinae.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/038-2.jpg?resize=768%2C944&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oecanthinae.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/038-2.jpg?resize=1250%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1250w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oecanthinae.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/038-2.jpg?resize=1170%2C1438&amp;ssl=1 1170w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oecanthinae.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/038-2.jpg?w=1430&amp;ssl=1 1430w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/box2406.temp.domains\/~oecanthi\/wp-content\/uploads\/037-2-1.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1594\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"894\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/box2406.temp.domains\/~oecanthi\/wp-content\/uploads\/090-2-733x1024.jpg?resize=640%2C894\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1601\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oecanthinae.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/090-2.jpg?resize=733%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 733w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oecanthinae.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/090-2.jpg?resize=215%2C300&amp;ssl=1 215w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oecanthinae.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/090-2.jpg?resize=768%2C1073&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oecanthinae.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/090-2.jpg?resize=1100%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1100w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oecanthinae.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/090-2.jpg?resize=1170%2C1634&amp;ssl=1 1170w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oecanthinae.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/090-2.jpg?w=1437&amp;ssl=1 1437w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oecanthinae.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/090-2.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two-spotted tree cricket males are known to make holes in leaves in order to increase the volume of their song. Tree cricket baffles are manufactured tools &#8211; Mhatre &#8211; 2018 &#8211; Ethology &#8211; Wiley Online Library This video shows the male at the early stage of creating the hole. Although I missed the initial chewing, I made sure that any leaves inside the enclosure were free of large holes. I have found many of these finished holes, and they are generally in the same area of the leaves. This is the first time I have witnessed the initial creation of one of these holes, and was surprised that the whole process took less than 5 minutes. These holes were made my two Two-spotted tree cricket males. One male made the hole on the large leaf on the bottom, and another male made all 4 holes in the three leaves on the top. This video is near the end of the process of creating a baffle hole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1587","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry",""],"a3_pvc":{"activated":false,"total_views":41,"today_views":0},"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oecanthinae.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oecanthinae.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oecanthinae.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oecanthinae.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oecanthinae.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1587"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/oecanthinae.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5494,"href":"https:\/\/oecanthinae.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1587\/revisions\/5494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oecanthinae.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}