I would also recommend buying the book by clicking on the cover image, it is beautiful and full color, giving 2 pages to each of 77 species of crickets, katydids, grasshoppers as well as an accompaniment CD with recordings of each insect. I was really struck by the large, high quality photographs of each species that is featured on each page and the helpful description of the songs. You can learn little tidbits such as how to tell the temperature just by listening to the Snowy Tree Cricket, or which insect can set off a car alarm with its loud song. This is yet another of Lang Elliott’s amazing resources for finding out about more of the world around us, focusing on sounds.
And many thanks to Amy for giving me this terrific book.
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