Cool! I bookmarked the website. It seems really cool. Right now, this time of year, we have the dog-day cicadas in the daytime and the katydids at night. There's a lot of insect music here. Barry
--- On Thu, 8/27/09, Edward Frank <[email protected]> wrote: From: Edward Frank <[email protected]> Subject: [ENTS] Re: Katydid and grasshopper in white pine canopy To: [email protected] Date: Thursday, August 27, 2009, 7:01 PM Andrew, Will, ENTS, Speaking of Katydids and Grasshoppers, I ran across an interesting announcement for an event in couple weeks in New York City. I emailed Dale as I thought this might be a future activity for a Cook Forest Program. Here are the links. NYC Cricket Crawl http://www.discoverlife.org/cricket/ A CALL FOR CITIZEN SCIENTISTS, ARTISTS, NATURALISTS, AND SCIENTISTS September 11, 2009 An aural expedition and a celebration of life in the leafy jungles of urban and suburban NYC and surrounding area. We Need You to Go Out on September 11th and Count Crickets and Katydids With Us in the New York City Area Songs: http://drop.io/nyccricketcrawl The Songs of Insects website: http://www.musicofnature.com/songsofinsects/index.html Welcome to songsofinsects.com, the support web site for The Songs of Insects, by Lang Elliott and Wil Hershberger. Our new full-color book and accompanying audio compact disc is the ultimate practical guide to singing insects, introducing the songs of 76 species of crickets, katydids and cicadas of eastern and central North America. On this site, we complement our book with an interactive Online Guide to Insect Songs. We include information about insect photography and sound recording, how to find and capture singing insects, keeping insects as pets, and more. Ed Frank "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science." - Albert Einstein ----- Original Message ----- From: Andrew Joslin To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2009 8:16 PM Subject: [ENTS] Re: Katydid and grasshopper in white pine canopy That is excellent. A quick look on google indicates that there are arboreal grasshopper species that feed on leaves, lichens and mosses. -AJ Will Blozan wrote: > Andrew, > > I often see grasshoppers in hemlock- camouflaged to mimic lichen. Awesome > looking critters. I have a photo somewhere... > > Will F. Blozan > President, Eastern Native Tree Society > President, Appalachian Arborists, Inc. > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Andrew Joslin > Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2009 10:52 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [ENTS] Katydid and grasshopper in white pine canopy > > > Here is some video from a climb with friends in a white pine on the the > north side of the Holyoke Range in south Amherst, Mass.: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_S1MDmv0QhQ > > I'm working on the grasshopper ID but no luck so far. We were very > interested to see a grasshopper above 85 ft. in a white pine, what was > it living on? Might be resident in the lower hardwood canopy and just > happened to be passing through. When it jumped it circled and landed > back in the pine, it was in no rush to leave the tree. > -AJ > > > > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org Send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
