Acoustic communication has played a key role in the evolution of animals—especially vertebrates and insects—ranging from mating to warning calls and even social learning. The reconstruction of ancient ...

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 ...

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 ...

Their ears may be on their legs, but katydids hear a lot like humans do, a new study finds. In fact, even though insect and mammal lineages diverged a staggeringly long time ago, even for the ...

Last Friday, citizen scientists fanned out across New York City, and learned the sounds of seven different kinds of crickets and katydids in the urban wild. They were particularly anxious to document ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 a detailed ...

When I was young, growing up in the suburbs of New York City, summer nights were full of the loud, ratcheting buzz of the katydid. Recently, I found a green insect under the lamp on the outside wall ...

Step outside any August night in leafy suburbia and you'll be serenaded by one of the loudest and most cheerful of North America's singing insects, the common true katydid. This is the critter that ...

When I was young, growing up in the suburbs of New York City, summer nights were full of the loud ratcheting buzz of the katydid. Recently, I found a green insect under the lamp on the outside wall of ...