It's a living flash of color in the Central American rainforest! Dan Smith shows how this hot-pink insect still manages to ...

Acoustic communication has played a key role in the evolution of animals—especially vertebrates and insects—ranging from mating to warning calls and even social learning. The reconstruction of ancient ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The killing frost means that the life cycle of many insects has come to an end. It is so with the katydid. A katydid is really ...

Most types of katydids are green and have markings to help them blend in with leaves and other foliage. Like crickets and grasshoppers, they have long back legs to help them jump. They can rub their ...

Reproduction can be risky. In the case of katydids, some hunting bats eavesdrop on male mating calls to locate the insects, but little is known about the risk to mates as they move toward each other.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A peacock katydid and pink grasshopper Pterochroza ocellata are displayed together. They are separated from their natural ...

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. Twenty-four ...

A pair of fossilized insect wings is singing loud and clear, thanks to the help of researchers. By analyzing a pair of fossilized wings, researchers have recreated what a 165-million-year-old katydid ...

When their numbers rise sharply, they can damage crops and are classified as outbreak pests. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Acoustic communication has played a key role in the evolution of animals especially vertebrates and insects, ranging from mating to warning calls and even social learning. The reconstruction of ...