My plan is to make short posts every day with photos, recordings, videos and links — a tree cricket tidbit a day. Topics will include: history, species, anatomy, life cycle, eggs, nymphs, instar stages, adults, songs, habitat, locations, behaviors…essentially things found on this website but most in a bit more detail. Over the past 16 years I have accumulated thousands of photos, recordings and videos – and this blog seems like the best way to share them. I am also hoping to follow the development of a tree cricket or two from egg to ovipositing the next generation. Below shows the topics under A Year of Tree Cricket Blogging. Thank you for reading. Nancy p.s. Please bear in mind that I am not the world’s best photographer 😉 JANUARY – Basics JAN 1 – The First Encounter; JAN 2 – The 1750 Encounter in 2018; JAN 3 – First Description of a Tree Cricket; JAN 4 – Ancient Amber Specimens; JAN 5 – My Early Encounters; JAN 6 – An Obsession is Born; JAN 7 – Often Heard but Rarely Known; JAN 8 – Tree Crickets Through the Microscope; JAN 9 – Dr. BB Fulton and My Tree Cricket Bible; JAN 10 – Dr. Thomas J. Walker & SINA website; JAN 11 –  BugGuide.net’s Value in Tree Cricketing; JAN 12 – iNaturalist.org – A World Database; JAN 13 – Orthoptera Species File – Database of Orthoptera; JAN 14 – Journal of Orthoptera Research & The Orthopterists’ Society; JAN 15 – Collections; JAN 16 – Oviposition – Ensuring the Next Generation; JAN 17 – Stems; JAN 18 – Diapause; JAN 19 – Eggs; JAN 20 – Hatching; JAN 21 – Caput Fluidum; JAN 22 – Early Nymphs; JAN 23 – Opening Old Stems; JAN 24 – Parasitic and paralyzing wasps; JAN 25 – Mites; JAN … Continue reading A Year of Tree Cricket Blogging