The mole cricket nowadays.

August 23.

P. M. – To Conantum. 

Hear the mole cricket nowadays. 

Collinsonia (very little left) not out

H. D. Thoreau, Journal, August 23, 1857

The mole cricket nowadays. See  August 6, 1855 ("The mole cricket creaks along the shore."); August 22, 1856 ("The creak of the mole cricket is heard along the shore.");August 26, 1859 ("The creak of the mole cricket has a very afternoon sound");September 20, 1855 ("Tried to trace by the sound a mole cricket, —- thinking it a frog, — advancing from two sides and looking where our courses intersected, but in vain."); September 27, 1855 ("I traced the note of what I have falsely thought the Rana palustris, or cricket frog, to its true source [and] I found a mole cricket (Gryllotalpa brevipennis).");  September 27, 1856 ("The creak of the mole cricket sounds late along the shore.")