Abstract
This chapter highlights the orthopteran orchestra that can be heard in Ithaca during the month of August. Lots of players contribute to this orchestra of the Orthoptera. There are all sorts of crickets—various field crickets, ground crickets, and tree crickets. And then there are the long-horned grasshoppers (meaning with long antennae), which are called katydids in the US. The author then mentions Lang Elliott and Wil Hershberger's guidebook, The Songs of Insects (2007). Orthopteran singing is much more energetic than cicada singing, although just as voiceless. Two of the big players in the author's backyard are the four-spotted tree cricket, Oecanthus quadripunctatus, and Davis's tree cricket, Oecanthus exclamationis.
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