Meet the Spiny Devil Katydid, scientifically known as Panacanthus cuspidatus, one of the most fascinating and uniquely weird insects roaming our planet. Native to the dense rainforests of South ...

The more you learn about insects, the more interesting they become, it seems. I mean, you can look at a lowly roly-poly and just think, “Look, there’s a roly-poly.” But once you learn of ...

Crickets, grasshoppers and katydids are all part of the order Orthoptera. That means an ability to chew. And chew they do. Katydids are one of 6,000 predominantly nocturnal insects related to this ...

Critters Welcome to Hot Katydid Summer Texas is experiencing a population outbreak of the noisy, tree-dwelling insects. With mating season in full swing, you might want to invest in earplugs.

Various species of insects boast ears in the strangest places, including on their necks and under their wings. Now, a new examination of 50-million-year-old cricket and katydid fossils finds that ...

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.

Male katydid acoustics are known to sound like 'Katy did, Katy didn't' on repeat. Texas katydids might be noisiest insects of the summer Male katydids might just be louder than cicadas in Texas ...

The insects soon will be calling their namesake once the sun settles on the horizon. Skip to content. All Sections. Subscribe Now. 58°F. Monday, May 19th 2025 E-Edition. Home Page.

Swarms of Mormon crickets are making their way through Southeast Idaho on their migratory routes, with insects spotted in ...

Everyone at work was talking about how loud and “happy” the insects What's making that 'kay-tee-did' sound at night? The oblong-winged katydids are singing love songs as summer comes to a close | Arts ...

The song and hearing range of a cricket-like insect has been discovered tens of millions of years after its death. After being trapped in amber for 44 million years, new scans of Eomortoniellus ...

A new fossil katydid of the genus Arethaea Stål (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) with exceptionally preserved internal organs from the Eocene Green River Formation of Colorado. Palaeoentomology , 2023 ...