Crickets and Katydids, Concerts and Solos / / Vincent G. Dethier.

"Vincent Dethier shows us how to listen for sound in fields, edges, and woods and to become aware of the movements that accompany sound.We learn from his sounds what kind of person, capable of this kind of interest and care, is attending to our minds. His own sound becomes part of the community...

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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]
©1992
Year of Publication:2013
Edition:Reprint 2013
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (140 p.) :; 18 line illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Foreword
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Prelude
  • The Field Crickets
  • The Spring Sulphur-Winged Locust
  • A Confusion of Ground Crickets
  • Climate in the Least Space
  • The Sphagnum Cricket
  • Shuffling, Rustling, Crackling
  • Meadow Grasshoppers
  • Mount Washington Interlude
  • The Salt Marshes of Cape Cod
  • A Counterpoint of Scrapes and Squawks
  • The Rare One
  • The Shield Bearers
  • Déjà Entendu
  • Reprise
  • Appendixes-References
  • Species Studied at the Franklin Laboratory
  • Seasonal Distribution of Adult Singing Orthoptera in Franklin, New Hampshire
  • Key for Identifying Species Studied
  • Phonetic Key to Songs of Crickets, Locusts, and Meadow Grasshoppers
  • Katydid and Shield-Bearer Songs
  • References