katydids

"Oohooh EYEYE zetzetzetzetzet HEYHEY!" chant the kids and the so-called katydids and one weary maman* chasing plastic lids.

chaleur - French Word-A-Day 2006

The full moon was about three hours above the eastern horizon; the entire countryside had the solemn still - ness of a summer night; our footfalls and the cease - less song of the katydids were the only sound, aloof.

Can Such Things Be Bierce, Ambrose, 1842-1914? 1909

The full moon was about three hours above the eastern horizon; the entire countryside had the solemn stillness of a summer night; our footfalls and the ceaseless song of the katydids were the only sound, aloof.

Can Such Things Be 1893

The full moon was about three hours above the eastern horizon; the entire countryside had the solemn stillness of a summer night; our footfalls and the ceaseless song of the katydids were the only sound aloof.

Can Such Things Be? Ambrose Bierce 1878

Hear snippets of the sounds made by twenty different common “singing” insects, such as katydids and crickets.

Insect Songs | Impact Lab 2007

However the Europeans refer to our "katydids" as "bush crickets", a term which we use for arboreal or climbing conventional crickets which are generally tan or dark brown in color.

Capital Weather Gang 2010

A form of the concept had been articulated—in a verbal outline, rather than mathematically—in a book by Richard Alexander at the University of Michigan, an expert on crickets, katydids, and cicadas.

SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011

The soles of my boots crunched across the gravel, echoing over the constant song of crickets and katydids, the occasional splash of water, and the call of bullfrogs.

Darkness Becomes Her Kelly Keaton 2011

The soles of my boots crunched across the gravel, echoing over the constant song of crickets and katydids, the occasional splash of water, and the call of bullfrogs.

Darkness Becomes Her Kelly Keaton 2011

At night, mixed in with the usual racket of tree frogs and katydids, I swear I can hear deer ticks out there, laughing at us.

The Great Guinea Hen Massacre 2009