Guoguo’er
Kelly came to help me search out scientists for identification of the insects in my recordings. It seems that most people are away as this is the summer vacation here in China. May have to wait till early Sept. She tells me ‘guoguo’ means cricket, and I have since found out that it is probably referring to Gampsocleis gratiosa. In Pinyin [Romanised Chinese] this is listed as guoguo’er and I have found references to it in English as a katydid or long horn grasshopper or even a bushcricket. This is the one commonly sold in Northern China and they are kept as pets for their singing. It is carnivorous and will eat prey larger than itself.
I have also now noticed the singing of a cricket outside the front of these flats. The singing is certainly coming from a window and not outdoors, so I will keep an eye/ear out.
Refs
*http://www.bolingo.org/cricket/crickets_nametable.htm
*http://www.cyberbee.net/~huang/pub/insect.html
*http://pisum.bionet.nsc.ru/kosterin/miscel/gratiosa.htm
*http://www.yellowbridge.com/language/wordsearch.php?searchMode=C&word=???&select=whole&search=Search
