Bear in mind that when you open any month, the first entry you will see is the last day of that month, and the first day of that month will be at the bottom.
This is the information which is included on the blog page:
JANUARY – Tidbits
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 26 – Thrips & Fairyflies;
JAN 27 – Worms & Flies;
JAN 28 – Maps;
JAN 29 – Keys to US Tree Crickets;
JAN 30 – Habitats and Host Plants;
JAN 31 – Tree Cricket Collage
FEBRUARY – Anatomy
FEB 1 – Tegmina;
FEB 2 – Stridulatory Teeth & File;
FEB 3 – Colors;
FEB 4 – Antennae;
FEB 5 – Eyes;
FEB 6 – Tympanal Membranes;
FEB 7 – Femora and Tibiae;
FEB 8 – Claws and Exoskeleton;
FEB 9 – Limb Markings and Coloring
FEB 10 – Pronotum;
FEB 11 – Metanotal Gland;
FEB 12 – Oecanthus Abdomen;
FEB 13 – Setae and Cerci;
FEB 14 – Neoxabea Tubercles;
FEB 15 – Antennal Filaments;
FEB 16 – Subgenital Plate;
FEB 17 – Internal Genital;
FEB 18 – Spermatophore;
FEB 19 – Female Openings and Spermatophores;
FEB 20 – Transferring the Spermatophore;
FEB 21 – Eating the Spermatophore;
FEB 22 – Gravid Females;
FEB 23 – Ovipositor;
FEB 24 – Mouth Palpi;
FEB 25 – Eating and Chewing;
FEB 26 – Grooming;
FEB 27 – Flying and Leaping;
FEB 28 – Vision ?
MARCH – Species
MAR 1 – US Species;
MAR 2 – Different-horned (Oecanthus varicornis);
MAR 3 – Walker’s (Oecanthus walkeri);
MAR 4 – Alexander’s (Oecanthus alexanderi);
MAR 5 – Brownsville (Neoxabea formosa);
MAR 6 – Thin-lined (Oecanthus leptogrammus);
MAR 7 – Western (Oecanthus californicus);
MAR 8 – Great (Oecanthus major);
MAR 9 – Texas (Oecanthus texensis);
MAR 10 – Riley’s (Oecanthus rileyi);
MAR 11 – Snowy (Oecanthus fultoni);
MAR 12 – Fast-calling (Oecanthus celerinictus);
MAR 13 – Four-spotted (Oecanthus quadripunctatus);
MAR 14 – Prairie (Oecanthus argentinus);
MAR 15 – Davis’ (Oecanthus exclamationis);
MAR 16 – Narrow-winged (Oecanthus niveus);
MAR 17 – Sage (Oecanthus salvii);
MAR 18 – White Sands (Oecanthus beameri);
MAR 19 – Two-spotted (Neoxabea bipunctata);
MAR 20 – Black-horned (Oecanthus nigricornis);
MAR 21 – Forbes’ (Oecanthus forbesi);
MAR 22 – Pine (Oecanthus pini);
MAR 23 – Tamarack (Oecanthus laricis);
MAR 24 – Broad-winged (Oecanthus latipennis);
MAR 25 – Oecanthus comma;
MAR 26 – Mexican (Neoxabea mexicana);
MAR 27 – Cri-cri (Oecanthus rohinae);
MAR 28 – Colorado Pine (?);
MAR 29 – Baja;
MAR 30 – Big Bend Texas;
MAR 31 – Others of Interest
APRIL – Songs
APR 1 – Mechanics of Singing;
APR 2 – Waveform Basics;
APR 3 – Pulses & Patterns;
APR 4 – Frequency Spectrograms;
APR 5 – Baffles;
APR 6 – Direction of Sound;
APR 7 – Where the Tree Crickets Sing;
APR 8 – 3rd Floor Balcony Menagerie;
APR 9 – Chorusing;
APR 10 – Warm-Up Clicking;
APR 11 – Song Graphs;
APR 12 – Multiple Species Singing;
APR 13 – Oecanthus alexanderi song;
APR 14 – Oecanthus walkeri song;
APR 15 – Oecanthus varicornis song;
APR 16 – Neoxabea bipunctata song;
APR 17 – Oecanthus niveus song;
APR 18 – Oecanthus exclamationis song;
APR 19 – Oecanthus texensis song;
APR 20 – Oecanthus californicus song;
APR 21 – Oecanthus latipennis song;
APR 22 – Oecanthus fultoni and rileyi song;
APR 23 – Oecanthus celerinictus song;
APR 24 – Oecanthus quadripunctatus song;
APR 25 – Oecanthus beameri song;
APR 26 – Oecanthus salvii song;
APR 27 – Oecanthus argentinus song;
APR 28 – Oecanthus pini and laricis songs;
APR 29 – Oecanthus forbesi song;
APR 30 – Oecanthus nigricornis song
MAY – World Species
MAY 1 – Otomi tree cricket (Oecanthus mhatreae);
MAY 2 – Cri-Cri tree cricket (Oecanthus rohiniae);
MAY 3 – Mexican tree cricket (Neoxabea mexicana);
MAY 4 – Nicaragua tree cricket (Neoxabea cerrojesusensis);
MAY 5 – Otte’s tree cricket (Neoxabea ottei);
MAY 6 – Baker’s tree cricket (Oecanthus bakeri);
MAY 7 – Belt’s tree cricket (Oecanthus belti);
MAY 8 – Golden tree cricket (Oecanthus symesi);
MAY 9 – Thin-lined tree cricket (Oecanthus leptogrammus);
MAY 10 – Allard’s tree cricket (Oecanthus allardi);
MAY 11 – Oecanthus comma
MAY 12 – Brownsville tree cricket (Neoxabea formosa);
MAY 13 – Great tree cricket (Oecanthus major);
MAY 14 – Oecanthus jamaicensis;
MAY 15 – Oecanthus prolatus;
MAY 16 – Oecanthus pallidus;
MAY 17 – Oecanthus pictus;
MAY 18 – Other South American Oecanthus;
MAY 19 – Neoxabea enodis;
MAY 20 – Neoxabea meridionalis;
MAY 21 – Other Neoxabea;
MAY 22 – Xabea;
MAY 23 – Australian Oecanthus;
MAY 24 – Hawaiian Species;
MAY 25 – Indian species;
MAY 26 – Oecanthus longicauda;
MAY 27 – Other Asian Oecanthus species;
MAY 28 – Oecanthus sycomorus;
MAY 29 – Cape Thermometer Cricket (Oecanthus capensis);
MAY 30 – Other African species;
MAY 31 – European species
JUNE – Miscellaneous and New Nymphs
JUN 1 – Cicadas and Crickets CD;
JUN 2 – Nymphs;
JUN 3 – Nymph Abdomen Patterns;
JUN 4 – Comparison of Instar Abdomen Patterns;
JUN 5 – Goldenrod Stem Oviposition Marks;
JUN 6 – Stems;
JUN 7 – Past Inventory;
JUN 8 – 2021 Emergence of a Nymph;
JUN 9 – Still Looking for a Live Nymph;
JUN 10 – S T I L L Looking for a Live Nymph;
JUN 11 – Nymphs
JUN 12 – Today’s Unsuccessful Search
JUN 13 – Weather Pros and Cons;
JUN 14 – Still No Nymphs;
JUN 15 – Still Searching;
JUN 16 – FIRST NYMPH;
JUN 17 – More LIVE Nymphs – live emerging video;
JUN 18 – No Nymphs Emerged Today;
JUN 19 – Drawings of Instar Stages and Adult by Bentley Ball Fulton;
JUN 20 – Where’s the Nymph?
JUN 21 – Another Nymph;
JUN 22 – Caput Fluidum;
JUN 23 – Scampering Nymph;
JUN 24 – Unsuccessful Emergence
JUN 25 – Found Nymph;
JUN 26 – Missing Eggs;
JUN 27 – An Intervention That MAY Have Worked
JUN 28 – Newly Emerged Grooming
JUN 29 – Nymph Nibbling vs Drinking
JUN 30 – Another Caput Fluidum Picture
JULY – More Nymph Photos & Videos
JUL 1 – So Young but So Fast;
JUL 2 – Nymph Jumping;
JUL 3 – Emerging and Exploring;
JUL 4 – Scampering Up a Stem with Elves Music
JUL 5 – King of the Hill
JUL 6 – Slightly Older Appearance;
JUL 7 – Another New Nymph Emerging;
JUL 8 – Video of the Moment of Release from Egg;
JUL 9 – Two (?Three) Newish Nymphs on Vegetation;
JUL 10 – Newest Nymph (Oecanthus forbesi);
JUL 11 – Older Nymph;
JUL 12 – Climbing to the Top;
JUL 13 – A Thirsty Nymph;
JULY 14 – Using Feelers;
JUL 15 – Looking Like a Big-Headed Toddler
JUL 16 – Neoxabea Nymphs;
JUL 17 – Oecanthus niveus Nymphs;
JUL 18 – Early Wing Buds;
JUL 19 – First View of Developing Wings;
JUL 20 – Finding Antennae First;
JUL 21 – Unsuccessful Emergence
JUL 22 – Random Nymph;
JUL 23 – Alexander’s Nymph;
JUL 24 – Pine tree cricket Nymph;
JUL 25 – Nymph on Hazelnut;
JUL 26 – A Pair of Siblings;
JUL 27 – Neoxabea bipunctata Female Nymph;
JUL 28 – Finding a Snowy Colony;
JUL 29 – Early Metanotal Gland?
JUL 30 – 5th instar Neoxabea female
JUL 31 – Videos
AUGUST – Tree Crickets on Plants
AUG 1 – Nymph on Thistle;
AUG 2 – Forbes’ Tree Cricket on Corn ! ;
AUG 3 – Forbes’ Tree Cricket on Milkweed;
AUG 4 – Forbes’ Tree Cricket on Raspberry;
AUG 5 – Pine Tree Cricket Nymph on Viburnum;
AUG 6 – Forbes’ Tree Cricket on Hazelnut;
AUG 7 – Pine Tree Cricket on Sow Thistle;
AUG 8 – Two-spotted Nymph on Tamarack;
AUG 9 – Narrow-winged on Box Elder;
AUG 10 – Nymph on Grass;
AUG 11 – Four-spotted on Monarda;
AUG 12 – Forbes’ Nymph on Monarda;
AUG 13 – Forbes’ Nymph on Joe Pye Weed;
AUG 14 – Female Exploring Pipevine;
AUG 15 – Male Forbes’ Singing on Smartweed;
AUG 16 – Adult Female Snowy on Banana !
AUG 17 – Forbes’ Male Singing on Asters;
AUG 18 – Narrow-winged Male Singing on Plum;
AUG 19 – Snowy Nymph on Hazelnut;
AUG 20 – Singing Forbes’ on Viburnum;
AUG 21 – Forbes’ Male on Giant Sunflower;
AUG 22 – Four-spotted on Coleus;
AUG 23 – Narrow-winged Male on Potted Coleus;
AUG 24 – Broad-winged Nymph on Raspberry;
AUG 25 – Different-horned Male on Plant in Grasses;
AUG 26 – Female Forbes’ Drinking From Cup Plant Pool;
AUG 27 – Snowy Nymph on Potted Geranium;
AUG 28 – Four-spotted Male Singing on French Broom;
AUG 29 – Forbes’ Male on Catmint;
AUG 30 – Pine Male on Yew;
AUG 31 – Two-spotted Male on Marigold;
SEPTEMBER – Singing and Mating
SEP 1 – Baffling Behavior
SEP 2 – Baffle Holes Up Close;
SEP 3 – Size of Baffle Hole;
SEP 4 – One Male’s Two Baffle Holes;
SEP 5 – A Male Using the Baffle Hole He Created;
SEP 6 – A Male Narrow-winged Using a Baffle Hole;
SEP 7 – Neoxabea bipunctata Mating Chaos;
SEP 8 – Photos of Mating Neoxabeans;
SEP 9 – Oecanthines Mating;
SEP 10 – Pine Pair with Spermatophore;
SEP 11 – Singing Heart;
SEP 12 – Forbes’ Pair – Clip #1;
SEP 13 – Forbes’ Pair – Clip #2;
SEP 14 – Forbes’ Pair – Clip #3;
SEP 15 – Movements of Male Hindwings;
SEP 16 – More Hindwings Movements;
SEP 17 – Spermatophore Transfer;
SEP 18 – The Spermatophore;
SEP 19 – Slow Motion Transfer of Spermatophore;
SEP 20 – Movement of an Attached Spermatophore;
SEP 21 – A Female Removing a Spermatophore;
SEP 22 – Walker’s Tree Cricket Female Eating a Spermatophore;
SEP 23 – Male’s Task to Prolong Drainage;
SEP 24 – A Male’s Frantic Search;
SEP 25 – Male Interference;
SEP 26 – Mouth Appendages Movements;
SEP 27 – A Female’s Escape;
SEP 28 – Song Differences;
SEP 29 – Question About the Process;
SEP 30 – Texas Tree Crickets Mating
OCTOBER – OVIPOSITION
OCT 1 – Oviposition Secretions;
OCT 2 – Chewing the Outer Layer;
OCT 3 – Dr. Fulton’s Description of Ovipositing;
OCT 4 – Oviposition Drawings by Dr. Bentley B. Fulton;
OCT 5 – Plants for Oviposition;
OCT 6 – Oviposited Stems;
OCT 7 – Collage of Stems;
OCT 8 – O. californicus on Broom Stem;
OCT 9 – Oviposition Openings;
OCT 10 – Dozens of Holes in One Stem;
OCT 11 – Snowy Tree Crickets Ovipositing Into Hazelnut Shrubs;
OCT 12 – Snowy Tree Cricket Oviposition Marks;
OCT 13 – Narrow-winged Oviposition Marks;
OCT 14 – Texas and Alexander’s Oviposition Marks;
OCT 15 – Varicornis Species Group Oviposition Marks;
OCT 16 – Nigricornis Species Group Oviposition Marks;
OCT 17 – Side View of Plugs;
OCT 18 – Joe Pye Weed Oviposition Holes;
OCT 19 – Oecanthus pini Holes on False Cypress;
OCT 20 – Oecanthus quadripunctatus Oviposition Holes;
OCT 21 – Cup Plant Oviposition Holes;
OCT 22 – Neoxabea bipunctata Oviposition;
OCT 23 – Russian Sage Oviposition Holes and Plugs;
OCT 24 – White Sands Tree Cricket Oviposition Holes;
OCT 25 – Eggs Oviposited into Slender Grapevine;
OCT 26 – Pre and Post Emergence;
OCT 27 – Well-plugged Holes;
OCT 28 – Crabapple Holes;
OCT 29 – Grapevine Holes;
OCT 30 – Grooming of Ovipositor;
OCT 31 – Oviposition
NOVEMBER – SONG GRAPHS
NOV 1 – Oecanthus varicornis (Different-horned tree cricket);
NOV 2 – Oecanthus texensis (Texas tree cricket);
NOV 3 – Oecanthus californicus (Western tree cricket);
NOV 4 – Oecanthus latipennis (Broad-winged tree cricket) – varicornis species group;
NOV 5 – The Varicornis Species Group;
NOV 6 – Neoxabea bipunctata (Two-spotted tree cricket);
NOV 7 – Oecanthus niveus (Narrow-winged tree cricket);
NOV 8 – Oecanthus exclamationis (Davis’ tree cricket);
NOV 9 – The Niveus species group and Neoxabea;
NOV 10 – Oecanthus walkeri (Walker’s tree cricket);
NOV 11 – Oecanthus quadripunctatus (Four-spotted tree cricket);
NOV 12 – Oecanthus nigricornis (Black-horned tree cricket);
NOV 13 – Oecanthus argentinus (Prairie tree cricket);
NOV 14 – Oecanthus celerinictus (Fast-calling tree cricket);
NOV 15 – Oecanthus forbesi (Forbes’ tree cricket);
NOV 16 – Oecanthus pini (Pine tree cricket);
NOV 17 – Oecanthus laricis (Tamarack tree cricket);
NOV 18 – Oecanthus beameri (White Sands tree cricket);
NOV 19 – Oecanthus salvii (Sage tree cricket);
NOV 20 – The Nigricornis Species Group;
NOV 21 – Five Slow Trillers (Southwest): O. walkeri, O. quadripunctatus, O. texensis, O. californicus, O. argentinus;
NOV 22 – Six Slow Trillers (East): O. quadripunctatus, O. nigricornis, O. laricis, O. argentinus. O. pini, O. latipennis
NOV 23 – Five Slow Trillers (West): O. quadripunctatus, O. salvii, O. californicus, O. beameri, O. argentinus
NOV 24 – Fast Trillers: O. celerinictus, O. forbesi, O. varicornis‘
NOV 25 – Two Potentially New Species: O. c. pictipennis and a ‘Pine’ from Colorado;
NOV 26 – European Species;
NOV 27 – Asia and Australia Species;
NOV 28 – North American Neoxabea and Nicaragua Oecanthus;
NOV 29 – Logarithmic Trendlines of US Trillers;
NOV 30 – Linear and Logarithmic Trendlines of US Trillers
DECEMBER-MISCELLANEOUS
DEC 1 – A Story Book from Japan;
DEC 2 – Wisconsin Entomological Society Newsletter;
DEC 3 – Simpler Times – Willis S. Blatchley;
DEC 4 – Chopard’s 1932 Key to African Species;
DEC 5- Toms & Otte Africa Paper;
DEC 6 – An Amazing Video;
DEC 7 – Tool-making in Australia by Xabeans;
DEC 8 – Singing Oecanthus longicauda;
DEC 9 – Fast Chirper from Brazil;
DEC 10 – Capturing Tree Crickets in Japan;
DEC 11 – Citizen Scientist Articlesl
DEC 12 – Oecanthus californicus pictipennis;
DEC 13 – Online Entomology Courses;
DEC 14 – Evolution of Articles;
DEC 15 – The SONG Lab;
DEC 16 – The MHATRE Lab;
DEC 17 – Microsoft Bing AI Chat – Oecanthinae;
DEC 18 – Darwin;
DEC 19 – Listening in Nature blog;
DEC 20 – Islands;
DEC 21 – 129-Year Evolution of Counting Chirps;
DEC 22 – Rearing and Plastics Heads Up & Questionl
DEC 23 – Taxonomy Changes in 2022;
DEC 24 – The Mesmerizing Call of Neoxabea bipunctata on a Cool Evening;
DEC 25 – A Newborn Tree Cricket;
DEC 26 – Borrowing a Baffle;
DEC 27 – Snowy on Geranium;
DEC 28 – Close Up of Ovipositor Movements;
DEC 29 – Four-spotted Tree Cricket Video;
DEC 30 – Snowy Tree Cricket Singing
DEC 31 – Best Singer Ever !blog, caput fluidum, entomology, insects, nature, neoxabea, oecanthus, orthoptera, species
