Website organization:
how to find what's interesting to you
Short-winged Meadow Katydid
Welcome, everyone!
Here’s a listing of everything currently planned for the website. I’ll make updates as needed and will be able to add additional topics over time. You'll find recordings as well as photos on most of these pages.
Start with the horizontal menu bar at the top of every page on the website. You can access all these topics from there.
Under the primary heading, there will be a drop-down menu of all the subfolders. You can click on the one you want and go directly there from the menu bar (but NOT from the table of contents list below, which is simply an illustration of what's available here.).
This website is currently designed for desktop, though it should look fine on tablets as well. I may need to make adaptations for mobile, but that won't happen until after the upcoming singing insect field season.
Northeast Ohio’s Singing Insects
The greater Cleveland region
Katydid or cricket?
Male or female?
Katydid or grasshopper?
What about cicadas?
How, why, and when do they sing?
Do they only sing at night?
Where do they sing: their habitats
Masters of camouflage
The season of song: late May
through mid-October
Reproduction: mating and ovipositing
Nymphs and molting
What they eat
Terminology and habitat descriptions
Recommended resources
Sword-bearing Conehead
Katydids 1: meadow katydids, coneheads,
and shieldbacks
Introduction to Meadow Katydids
Conocephalus Meadow Katydids
Short-winged Meadow Katydid
Slender Meadow Katydid
Straight-lanced Meadow Katydid
Black-sided Meadow Katydid
Long-tailed Meadow Katydid
Orchelimum Meadow Katydids
Gladiator Meadow Katydid
Black-legged Meadow Katydid
Common Meadow Katydid
Introduction to Conehead Katydids
Sword-bearing Conehead
Round-tipped Conehead
Nebraska Conehead
False Robust Conehead – a new arrival
Introduction to Shieldback Katydids
Roesel’s Katydid
Least Shieldback
Protean Shieldback
A silent katydid: the Drumming Katydid
Crickets 1: Crickets on the ground, crickets in the bushes, and the tiny trigs
Spring and Fall Field Crickets
Japanese Burrowing Cricket:
they're coming soon to NE Ohio
Introduction to Ground Crickets
Eunemobius ground crickets
Carolina Ground Cricket
Confused Ground Cricket
Melodious Ground Cricket
Allonemobius ground crickets
Allard’s Ground Cricket
Striped Ground Cricket
Spotted Ground Cricket
Neonemobius ground crickets
Cuban Ground Cricket
Northern Mole Cricket
Jumping Bush Cricket
Introduction to Trigs
Spring Trig
Say’s Trigs
Handsome Trig
Crickets that don’t sing
Carolina Leaf Roller
Camel and Cave Crickets
Restless Bush Cricket
Katydids 2: the leaf mimics
Common True Katydid
Introduction to Round-winged, Oblong-winged, and Angle-wing Katydids
Rattler Round-winged Katydid
Oblong-winged Katydid
Greater Angle-wing
Introduction to Scudderia Bush Katydids
Broad-winged Bush Katydid
Curve-tailed Bush Katydid
Texas Bush Katydid
Fork-tailed Bush Katydid
Northern Bush Katydid
Crickets 2: Tree Crickets
Tree cricket introduction
Two-spotted Tree Cricket
Pine Tree Cricket
Snowy Tree Cricket
Narrow-winged Tree Cricket
Davis’s Tree Cricket
Four-spotted Tree Cricket
Broad-winged Tree Cricket
Two tree crickets that look and sound identical: the overlap zone
Black-horned Tree Cricket
Forbes’s Tree Cricket
