Re: Do crickets have tear ducts and if so,do they cry?

Crickets like all insects have their skeleton on the outside which provides 
support but also keeps fluids in. They also have various openings from which 
secretions come out. However tears are not one of those secretions.  Animals 
like us use tears to wash away dirt that gets in our eyes.  The cricket has 
compound eyes that are covered with a clear material called chitin. This 
material covers their whole body.
	Cricket brains are small and they seem to use every bit of it trying to 
survive.  While they are alert to danger and try to escape, they really 
don't seem to have emotions as we know them. Or at least we don't know how 
to tell if they are sad or not. 
	As humans we must take care not to project human qualities on to the 
other animals that exist in the world (that's called anthropomorphism).  We
should love them as they are for themselves.  They are wonderful in their own
way. To do so would encourage the mind set that those like us are better that
those not like us. Because of this people are encouraged to "save the whale or
the Koala" but not the not so fuzzy creatures of the world. All creatures great
and small are deserving of out respect regardless if they are not like us.