It's a living flash of color in the Central American rainforest! Dan Smith shows how this hot-pink insect still manages to ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The killing frost means that the life cycle of many insects has come to an end. It is so with the katydid. A katydid is really ...

50 million years ago in what is now northwestern Colorado, a katydid died, sank to the bottom of a lake and was quickly buried in fine sediments, where it remained until its compressed fossil was ...

A recent Journal of Orthoptera Research article describes two newly identified katydid species endemic to the southern Appalachian Mountains. The study examined the morphology and acoustic behaviors ...

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 ...

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 ...