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 ...

In the summers in Mississippi, there was an incredible night sound, along with many others, that meant “summer” to me. As I grew up, I realized that the sounds, especially the ONE, were katydids.

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 ...

The melodious songs of nesting birds may be the sounds most associated with spring and early summer. But, this time of year, it is the ceaseless droning and buzzing of katydids and cicadas that tell ...

One evening a few weeks ago my wife and I played cards with our daughter and her husband at their home near Asheville, North Carolina. A cool breeze drifted through an open window and so did the ...

The variation in the seasons and rhythm of the natural world is a constant cycle and inspiration to me. Sometimes I am taken by surprise by the signs of seasonal change, and that happened to me a few ...

I just got home from one glorious week of camping on the northern end of Lake George, N.Y., where every evening we were serenaded by chorus upon chorus of katydids up high in the trees. I’m sure ...

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 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?

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 ...

When the sky turns dark over the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and the howler monkeys become silent, the katydids start singing and dancing. Most of the researchers living on Barro Colorado ...