Thought you all might be interested in this. Not just birds and frogs
to tune the hearing for.

Dick Smith
Columbia, MD

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[mailto:VA-MD-DE-Bugs@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Sam Droege
Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 9:18 AM
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Subject: [VA-MD-DE-Bugs] New Songs of Insects Book by Elliot and
Hershberger



All:

I just received a copy of Lang Elliot and Wil Hershberger's book, The
Songs of Insects and just wanted to let the list know what a fabulous
addition it will be to any local naturalist.

I used to work a lot on this group in the late 1990's, testing
monitoring
protocols primarily for the katydid groups. I grew to appreciate how one

could identify almost all of the species just by their calls.
Unfortunately, I couldn't get much interest from the Department of
Interior to continue that work and so instead now work on native bee
monitoring techniques...something that people have more awareness of.

I think this book should move crickets, katydids, and cicadas into the
realm of butterflies and dragonflies. Now non-professionals have great
access to information and calls of these insects in a book and the
associated CD and can go deeper by accessing the information on Tom
Walker's web site in Gainesville, FL for all the species in North
America.
Consequently, it would be great to see people organize the collection of

distribution and abundance information of these species within the
region.

The pictures are the best I have seen and the recordings are of the
highest quality....this is a book that will greatly change how any of
you
listen and look at these critters. ... .

sam

Sam Droege Sam_Droege@... <mailto:Sam_Droege%40USGS.GOV>
w 301-497-5840 h 301-390-7759 fax 301-497-5624
USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center
BARC-EAST, BLDG 308, RM 124 10300 Balt. Ave., Beltsville, MD 20705
Http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov <Http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov>

The cricket sang,
And set the sun,
And workmen finished, one by one,
Their seam the day upon.

The low grass loaded with the dew,
The twilight stood as strangers do
With hat in hand, polite and new,
To stay as if, or go.

A vastness, as a neighbor, came,--
A wisdom without face or name,
A peace, as hemispheres at home,--
And so the night became.
-Dickinson

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