Bug Eric

Carnivorous katydids? That might come as a shock, but in reality, many members of the order Orthoptera, which includes katydids, grasshopper...

Observing the insect world requires one to use not just their vision, but their hearing, too. Many insects use sound to communicate with ea...

I vividly recall an episode in my childhood that perhaps cemented my fascination with insects. I must have been somewhere between eight and...

In previous weeks I have written about the Greater Angle-wing Katydid and the Lesser Angle-wing Katydid , but there are four other species ...

Last week I wrote about the Greater Angle-wing Katydid , a common species over much of the U.S. While reviewing images for that post, I dis...

One of the joys of summer nights in North America, at least east of the Rocky Mountains, is the songs of katydids. Among the more abundant ...

Today I am introducing what will be yet another semi-regular feature of this blog: everything cricket, katydid, grasshopper, and related in...