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A 50-million-year-old insect testicle is one lucky find
Popular Science· 10 months agoPresent-day katydids of the genus Arethaea, pictured here, have the same internal structures as...
Why don’t female crickets chirp?
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 2 days agoI feel a song coming on ... Paul Starosta/Stone via Getty images Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an...
‘Unusual’ creature — with ultrasonic song — escapes its cage. It’s a new species
Miami Herald via Yahoo News· 1 week agoIn a meadow in Argentina, an “unusual” creature called into the darkness. The small animal’s song...
'Biblical' insect swarms spur Oregon push to fight pests
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoApril Aamodt holds a Mormon cricket in her hand in Blalock Canyon near Arlington, Ore., on June 17....
Crickets and grasshoppers everywhere!
Times Record News via Yahoo News· 9 months agoCrickets and grasshoppers everywhere! Is this an unusual occurrence or summer status quo? Over the past few weeks, I’ve noticed an abundance of...
Mini creatures with mighty voices know their audience and focus on a single frequency
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 1 year agoIn the cloud forests of South America, amid the constant cacophony of bird and insect noise, a...
'They’re just gross': Mormon crickets descend on Nevada and wreak havoc
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 10 months agoParts of Nevada are being overrun by an explosion of flightless, ground-dwelling cannibalistic...
Not swarms of locusts — they’re Mormon crickets. Why experts fear their rise in Idaho
Idaho Statesman McClatchy Articles via AOL· 2 years agoIdahoans can expect to see Mormon crickets for a little longer than usual this year. And this...
Northland Nature: Orthoptera chirp away in August
The Pine Journal, Cloquet, Minn. via Yahoo Sports· 9 months agoAug. 4—According to the calendar, halfway between the summer solstice in June and the autumnal equinox in September is the first week of August. This time could be called midsummer. August is ...
Bill Kenny of The Last Green Valley: Clues from nature point to the start of fall
The Bulletin via Yahoo News· 8 months ago“How earnestly and rapidly each creature, each flower is fulfilling its part while its day lasts!...
