Bug Eric

Tree crickets, genus Oecanthus , are having quite the year here along the Colorado Front Range. Last month I went to Garden of the Gods par...

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...