When you hear the chorus of insects on a late-summer evening, you probably recognize the katydid songs quite easily, and kids have fun listening to them. But would you know a katydid if you saw one?

It was the first full week of September and for some reason, the weather gods decided to save some of the hottest days of the summer for those of us going back to school. The combination of heat and ...

Standing in a tropical forest at night, you might hear what sounds like a small bird calling from high in the canopy. Listen ...

Behaviors are challenging to reconstruct for extinct species, particularly the nature and origins of acoustic communication. Here we unravel the song of Archaboilus musicus Gu, Engel and Ren sp. nov., ...

A pair of fossilized insect wings is singing loud and clear, thanks to the help of researchers. By analyzing a pair of fossilized wings, researchers have recreated what a 165-million-year-old katydid ...

Researchers have re-created the love song of a katydid from 165 million years ago, based on an analysis of fossilized wings found in northwest China. They say the chirp adds an aural dimension to our ...

The songs that crickets and katydids sing at night to attract mates can help in monitoring and mapping their populations, according to US researchers, whose study of Orthoptera species in central ...

Even after a quarter-century in California, I still miss lightning bugs—especially in late summer. By some quirk of biogeography, they never made it west of the Rockies. We have a few species of ...

August is the month for katydid song, monarch pupation, the mating and birthing season for venomous snakes, second litters for several mammals, breeding for a few and weaning for another. The whites ...

The variation in the seasons and rhythm of the natural world is a constant cycle and inspiration to me. Sometimes I am taken by surprise by the signs of seasonal change, and that happened to me a few ...

Male insects, such as crickets and katydids, create sounds by rubbing their wings together, a process called stridulation. The sounds of these insects, which have existed for millions of years, can be ...

As a Southerner, I take my bugs seriously and I’m not so happy about the critter situation this summer. Evenings on the porch have been sort of quiet, as cicadas seem to be sitting this one out while ...