This month will be treated as a miscellaneous clean-up and will include: articles, references, books, photos, videos, websites, comments and questions. I will end with some of my favorite videos. Note: This completes my one full year of daily entries regarding tree crickets! DEC 31 – Best Singer Ever ! This male Neoxabea cerrojesusensis has the absolute best intro to his song…and seemed like the best candidate for preparing for the new year. This species was described from Nicaragua. DEC 30 – Snowy Tree Cricket Singing DEC 29 – Four-spotted Tree Cricket Video DEC 28 – Close Up of Ovipositor Movements I was surprised when I saw this sliding of one shaft over the other close up this year. I had read about it, but never fully appreciated what was happening until I caught this on video of a female Forbes’ tree cricket ovipositing. DEC 27 – Snowy on Geranium Singing tree crickets can be found on many different species and types of vegetation – native, non-native and even potted. DEC 26 – Borrowing a Baffle There were several Two-spotted tree crickets in a small patch of apple trees, and this Narrow-winged tree cricket ‘borrowed’ one to amplify its call. I personally have never witnessed a Narrow-winged make these holes, but have seen them a few times using a hole made by a Two-spotted. DEC 25 – A Newborn Tree Cricket DEC 24 – The Mesmerizing Calling of Neoxabea bipunctata on a Cool Evening DEC 23 – Taxonomy Changes in 2022 This image shows ‘my understanding’ of the changes to Oecanthinae based on DNA testing here: Campos, L.D.de, Souza-Dias, P.G.B., Audino, J.A., Desutter-Grandcolas, L. & Nihei, S.S. (2022) The fifth family of the true crickets (Insecta: Orthoptera: Ensifera: Grylloidea), Oecanthidae defin. nov.: phylogenetic relationships and divergence times. Zoological Journal of the … Continue reading DECEMBER