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Welcome to our Blog! We hope that you find the interaction and additional content here and on our web site songsofinsects.com fun and educational.
Lang Elliott and myself Wil Hershberger are pleased that there is a great deal of interest in our book, “The Songs of Insects,” by Houghton-Mifflin Co. We hope to generate a new aesthetic in North America for the appreciation of the singing insects and the choruses that they produce.
We hope that you have fun here and we look forward to your questions and comments.
Wil and Lang
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About
Welcome to our Blog! We hope that you find the interaction and additional content here and on our web site songsofinsects.com fun and educational.
Lang Elliott and myself Wil Hershberger are pleased that there is a great deal of interest in our book, “The Songs of Insects,” by Houghton-Mifflin Co. We hope to generate a new aesthetic in North America for the appreciation of the singing insects and the choruses that they produce.
We hope that you have fun here and we look forward to your questions and comments.
Wil and Lang
Great sounds! I will be picking the CDs up, they complement the one we already have on frogs!
There must be a small, relatively cheap digital recorder available these days. One that can pick up full spectum of sounds from the very low pitched frogs to high frequencies. Do you have any recommendation? (Suitable for travellers.)
Thanks
Doug
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stillwoods.blogspot.com
Hello,
I was fortunate enough to witness the emergence of brood XIV, the seventeen year cicada this June, in Falmouth, MA. Your cicada brood map in Songs of Insects does not indicate that they were in this area, however. In fact, no area in Massachusetts is colored in. If I were going by the map, I might have driven to southwest Connecticut, instead of staying put.
But you’re probably already aware of this by now.
Love the book, by the way.
Eve
Thanks Eve,
Of all the species we covered the cicadas were the only group where range data is very much lacking. Thanks for the sighting info. We will make a note of this. It appears that there are additional areas in western PA and northern WV were 17 year cicadas have been seen that was not indicated on the range maps.
Thanks again,
Wil