Meet a katydid that sounds like a bird and is as big as one too! It's even able to modulate its call to avoid attracting bats ...

Discover a list of insects that look like a flower, from the Orchid Praying Mantis to the Camouflaged Looper. Explore how ...

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. A friend and I talked about old songs recently, and he asked how old I thought the oldest known song was. I’m not usually good at music trivia, but I ...

It’s time for Field Notes, brought to you by the Montana Natural History Center. As the days grow shorter and nights turn cooler, I find myself drawn outdoors at sunset. It isn’t the quiet I’m called ...

Out here in the rural parts of Newton County, the cool temperatures of September nights make for comfortable windows-open sleeping weather. Through those open windows often come a wild variety of ...

Last week I was looking at some young American Elm saplings, enjoying their vibrant green, softly radiant leaves. Then I noticed that one of the leaves was moving. Not swaying or fluttering with the ...

Nonstop sounds of insects are being used to drive an RV encampment off a street outside a Los Angeles business. A warehouse in Westchester installed the security device in August that blasts the ...

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 ...

The katydid with a quick rasping rattle. Minor correction for this episode: only the male lesser anglewing will have the brown patch on the back. Do you want to learn more bird songs, frog calls, and ...