The mid-summer lull in nature noise is about to come to an end. Crickets, katydids, grasshoppers and cicadas are about to take up their part of the annual outdoor orchestral. They’ll begin ...

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 ...

Over 100 million years ago, the chirps of insects known as katydids dominated the sounds of Earth’s nights. Now, fossils reveal what the katydid ears that heard those sounds looked like. Twenty-four ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Texas is experiencing a population outbreak of the noisy, tree-dwelling insects. With mating season in full swing, you might want to invest in earplugs. If you’ve noticed the raspy chirping more than ...

Katydids have joined in the July chorus with cicadas, crickets, and frogs. The Missouri Department of Conservation encourages people to discover nature by learning more about Missouri’s loudest insect ...