July 23, 2013

Rare bushcricket’s chirp as loud as a power saw



An undergraduate researcher is joint first author of a new paper detailing why a recently rediscovered species of bushcricket has an unusually loud and ultra-high frequency calling song.

Ben Chivers, who is studying animal behaviour at the University of Lincoln, UK, co-authored the paper which illustrates the process in which the katydid or bushcricket Arachnoscelis arachnoides produces sound.