Summer Bug Music Fest - No Ticket Required

 

While the volume of annual cicadas is slowly fading during the day, the 33 reported different species of crickets, grasshoppers, and katydids are ready to keep the concert rolling into late summer and fall.

I’m sure that there are a lot of people who just lump all of the species producing the seemingly continuous noise into “some bug over there” or “the crickets are really loud this year.” The facts are a lot more individual and interesting than that for the trio of singers: crickets, grasshoppers and katydids. 

Read the column in its entirety here, Summer bug noise: Three species keep the volume high into fall.  You'll learn how to tell the difference between the three and a sort of common "mercurial" trait they share.