Insect sounds

Milky way

Chasing night sounds

There are a lot of interesting sounds that are seldom heard except at night.  Not just bats and owls, but also a variety of insects: crickets, bush crickets, and beetles, to name a few.  The insects like warm nights, and so that’s also when you have more insect predators, like the bats. It’s been really […]

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Apache Cicada

Swamp coolers and cicadas

Summer has officially arrived in southern Arizona, even if the calendar says it’s still a couple of weeks off.  Daytime temperatures in Tucson have exceeded 100 Fahrenheit for the last several days, and are expected to stay above 100 for the foreseeable future. One of the few things that makes this kind of heat tolerable

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