Every season has a particular characteristic that makes it feel unique. Sometimes that characteristic is temperature or humidity, and other times it can be scents or sounds. Keeping this in mind, I ...

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 ...

On today’s episode of the Mongabay Newscast we speak with Laurel Symes, a biologist who is using bioacoustics to study tropical katydids in Central America. Laurel Symes is assistant director of the ...

‘I have a giant grasshopper-like leaf insect on my window screen. Is this a good insect or a bad insect?” — N.M. It sounds like you are describing a katydid. We all know that Katy Lied, but none of us ...

The mating calls of the katydid, a large insect, are ultrasonic, beyond the audible limit of human hearing. What if we could hear them? That’s the focus behind a collaboration between the abstract ...

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 ...

Around 200 million years ago, katydids, an insect group related to grasshoppers and crickets, were already singing to communicate to attract mates and hearing long-distance calls, a new study has ...

Ithaca, N.Y.--Ecosystems can be incredibly complex, with many interacting species. In many habitats, predators shape they behavior of prey and prey shape the behavior of predators. This paper provides ...

David Rentz does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

Step into a patch of overgrown grass or prairie, and you’ll likely trigger a popcorn-like frenzy of jumping insects. Late August and early September can be peak times to study grasshoppers, katydids ...