From forests to meadows, these clever insects blend perfectly with leaves, showing nature’s artistry at its finest.

Katydids, the insects that mimic leaves with astonishing precision and cunning to survive. This insect always fascinates ...

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Melissa Breyer was Treehugger’s senior editorial director before moving to Martha Stewart. Her writing and photography have been featured in The New York Times, The Guardian, National Geographic, ...

On autumn evenings, listen for a chorus of crickets. Female crickets deposit eggs under soil to overwinter and hatch in the spring. Male crickets don’t get their wings until their final molt at ...

You can’t see the singers in the shadows, but you sure can hear them! Their music fills the night air— pulsating, chirping, clicking and buzzing from every direction. The concert starts soon after ...

The songs that crickets and katydids sing at night to attract mates can help in monitoring and mapping their populations, according to US researchers, whose study of Orthoptera species in central ...

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Julie Gould is a freelance journalist in London, and produces the Nature Careers Podcast. GUI/GOOEY is an international online exhibition that explores digital and technological representations of the ...

Summer is a time of the year when people usually spend a lot of time outside and many of us, author included, like to be in nature. Some research suggests that humans innately tend to seek connections ...