New Book Published: A Field Guide to the Bushcrickets, Wetas and Raspy Crickets of Tanzania and Kenya

A Field Guide to the Bushcrickets, Wetas and Raspy Crickets of Tanzania and Kenya by Claudia Hemp, with contributions from: Andreas Hemp; Klaus-Gerhard Heller. Please see the publisher’s page for more information: Schweizerbart Science Publishing. To order, contact mail@schweizerbart.de – the price is 54.90 Euro, but only 27.45 Euro for Orthopterists’Continue readingNew Book Published: A Field Guide to the Bushcrickets, Wetas and Raspy Crickets of Tanzania and Kenya

Encyclopedia of Pest Orthoptera of the World Book Now Shipping Worldwide

http://orthsoc.org/publications/books/ Encyclopedia of Pest Orthoptera of the World (2019, 311 pp.) by Michel Lecoq and Long Zhang (Sc. Ed.) from China Agricultural University Press, Beijing. ISBN: 978-7-5655-2232-1.  This encyclopedia covers the main Orthoptera species–locusts, grasshoppers and crickets–considered as important pests of crops and pasture worldwide. Some of these species are invasive at aContinue readingEncyclopedia of Pest Orthoptera of the World Book Now Shipping Worldwide

Jago’s Grasshoppers of East and North East Africa Vol. 4 Now Available!

In volume 4 of the handbook series of “Jago’s Grasshoppers and Locusts of East and North-East Africa” the Acridinae subfamilies Euryphyminae, Cyrtacanthacridinae, and Oedipodinae are treated. The book has 232 pages and is fully illustrated with many of the species shown alive for the first time. For most of thoseContinue readingJago’s Grasshoppers of East and North East Africa Vol. 4 Now Available!

SINA Has A New Home!

Good news! The incredible Singing Insects of North America (SINA) site officially has a new home as part of the Orthopterists’ Society website. The transition has been in process for many months and is complete at last! Please update your bookmarks to: https://orthsoc.org/sina/

New Book Published! Encyclopedia of Pest Orthoptera of the World

A new book on Orthoptera has just been published!   LECOQ M., ZHANG L. (Sc. Ed.), 2019. Encyclopedia of Pest Orthoptera of the World. China Agricultural University Press, Beijing. 311 p.  ISBN: 978-7-5655-2232-1 This encyclopedia covers the main Orthoptera species–locusts, grasshoppers and crickets–considered as important pests of crops and pasture worldwide. SomeContinue readingNew Book Published! Encyclopedia of Pest Orthoptera of the World