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The Insect That Sounds Like a Songbird

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 ...
Colorado Public Radio

What’s making that noise? Chasing down the insect sounds of summer

When you stop and listen, Colorado is the stage for an insect cacophony this time of year. Crickets sing in the grasses, and the trees are full of shrilling cicadas and the scree-scree-scree calls of ...
Live Science

Insects: Facts about the creepy-crawlies that make up more than half of the world's animal species

Discover interesting facts about insects, the critters whose combined weight on the planet is 70 times that of all humans. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...
Inverse

1 overlooked human action could be destroying entire ecosystems

Back when she was a graduate student, Robin Tinghitella learned something surprising: Birds can deduce the genetic quality of potential mates through smell. "I thought that was the craziest thing I ...
The Conversation

Why learning animal sounds can be crucial to children’s language development

Western University provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. Western University provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA. Did you know that animal sounds can be crucial to ...
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Insects: Facts about the creepy-crawlies that make up more than half of the world's animal species

More than half of all known animal species on Earth are insects — critters with a hard external skeleton, three pairs of jointed legs, antennae and a body divided into three segments (the head, thorax ...