After being harangued by our BV community journalist Cathy Benson, this Katydid flew into a nearby apple tree and made lots of loud whirring sounds for the rest of the afternoon and evening. It is one ...

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 ...

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 ...

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?

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 ...