The Songs of Insects [With CD]

by Lang Elliott

The Songs of Insects is a celebration of the chirps, trills, and scrapes of seventy-seven common species of crickets, katydids, locusts, and cicadas native to eastern and central North America. The... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0618663975
• ISBN13: 9780618663972
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 227 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Disappointed

Cd was missing. That's was the main reason I purchased this item was for the cd. Thoroughly disappointed.

This book far exceeded my expectations

"The Songs of Insects" has opened up a world of insect sound to me. Six-legged singers are often hard to spot visually and therefore difficult to identify. This book provides a solution. A large number of species of insect singers are covered and for each there is a beautiful photograph, a range map and description as well as a good sound track and sonogram. Both noctural and diurnal species are included. I highly recommend this book

The Songs of Insects

Very well written and vocabulary is a level children and adults understand and enjoy. Photography is amazing. CD sound track also amazing, some of them I had never heard their songs before. Very good educational tool and enjoyable for children and adults.

Another extraordinary book from Lang Elliott

Each new book Lang Elliott produces is a leap and a bound more wonderful than the last excellent one. A prolific sound-recordist and photographer, Elliott--along with co-author Wil Hershberger--knows how to communicate knowledge and information in a way that draws the reader in, opening eyes, ears and sense of wonder to the natural world. What a fabulous addition to my natural history library!

If you have done butterflies and dragonflies.....

I just received a copy of Lang Elliot and Wil Hershberger's book, The Songs of Insects and just wanted to say what a fabulous addition this will be to any local naturalist's collection of guides. 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 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 same realm butterflies and dragonflies now inhabit for many naturalists. Now non-professionals will have great access to information and calls of these insects though this book and the associated CD. Furthermore this is complemented by accessing the information on Tom Walker's web site in Gainesville, FL for all the species in North America, complete with their songs and calls. Consequently, it would be great to see people organize the collection of distribution and abundance information of these species within North America similar to efforts for dragonflies and butterflies. 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. ... .I can't say enough. Sam Droege