Standing in a tropical forest at night, you might hear what sounds like a small bird calling from high in the canopy. Listen ...

Katydids are leaf-like bugs and they deceive all. Scientists believe they are smart survival players. They belong to the family of Tettigoniidae, although you may know them as the bush crickets or ...

Fall is the time of year when the grasshopper kin are reaching their noisy peak, and I often think I need to spend more time sorting them out by call, but I find that only the true katydid’s eponymous ...

Katydids are green insects, related to crickets, using extraordinary camouflage for survival in trees and shrubs. Their leaf-like wings fold, mimicking natural leaf movements. Katydids usually live up ...

Meet Malaysia's new pink ladies: Two species of katydid whose females sport distinctly rosy hues. While the males of the new species are a uniform green color, the females are standouts in red and ...

YOU never know what you will find in the rainforests of Panama’s Cocobolo Nature Reserve. Nestled in a thin forest corridor that connects habitats in North and South America, it is a crucial pit stop ...

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 ...

Most types of katydids are green and have markings to help them blend in with leaves and other foliage. Like crickets and grasshoppers, they have long back legs to help them jump. They can rub their ...

Male insects, such as crickets and katydids, create sounds by rubbing their wings together, a process called stridulation. The sounds of these insects, which have existed for millions of years, can be ...

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 ...

A research team led by Prof. Huang Diying from the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (NIGPAS) has identified three species of Jurassic orthopterans—an ...