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

Growing up in Mississippi, we did not have air conditioning or even fans, so at night all we heard were the night sounds. It was not until I became an adult living in the country that I heard the same ...

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 ...

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The killing frost means that the life cycle of many insects has come to an end. It is so with the katydid. A katydid is really just a "long-horned" grasshopper or a "bush cricket." Crickets, ...