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Singing Insects of North America
Covers crickets, katydids, and cicadas. Cicada information rather incomplete at present (March, 2004). Extnsive information on orthoptera.
http://buzz.ifas.ufl.edu/index.htm
Contributed by Cotinis on 16 March, 2004 - 1:41pm
Last updated 31 March, 2005 - 6:48pm

URL has changed
https://sina.orthsoc.org/index.htm
… Tyler Hedlund, 10 June, 2020 - 11:48am

More complete now -late 2010 - but still a work in progress
An excellent web site with good coverage of North American species from north of Mexico. Has photos, maps and recordings of most.
New URL = http://entnemdept.ufl.edu/walker/buzz/index.htm
… David J. Ferguson, 7 November, 2010 - 12:22pm

Crickets aka Sing-songs
I love sing-songs. They are singing right now! I hate winter because it is so dead sounding. I want to move to SC so I can hear them all year long! Pray that I do soon
… Youxia Lei, 15 August, 2010 - 11:21pm

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