Despite representing two third of the European Orthoptera biodiversity, bush crickets (Ensifera: Tettigoniidea) remain often difficult to observe and study in the field. In this article, I will share some personal experiences and highlight potential for future...
Miguel Domenech Fernández is a young Spanish orthopterologist based in the province of Albacete. He has been very active since his final year thesis and has gradually incorporated bioacoustics into his research methods. He shares his reflections on his development...
The Greek workshop has been launched, and a shortlist of 22 participants from 10 countries has been approved. bc.lab.uoi.gr/en/education-training/teoss/
We have added the recent talk by David Bennet to our canal. https://youtu.be/axx4PJnOMEM Artículo científico: Recent technological developments allow for passive acoustic monitoring of Orthoptera (grasshoppers and crickets) in research and conservation across a broad...
In 2025, we will have a second TEOSS meeting in Spain, but this time we will serve a more international audience with the attendance of participants in the training workshops in 2024. The objective will be to put the TEOSS protocol into practice in the field,...
THE TEOSS Spain project announces its 2025 meeting in the Serranía de Cuenca on the dates of July 17 to 19, 2025. We will review concepts from the 2024 training workshop and above all we will train data collection in the field.Formulario de inscripción Enlace.
While many invertebrates produce sounds incidentally, cicadas, crickets, and grasshoppers stand out for their ability to produce loud, purposeful sounds that play vital roles in their communication, reproduction, and survival strategies. The male songs are indeed...
During TEOSS workshops we will be aiming at collecting Orthopteran sound recordings of well-identified species with a minimum set of metadata. Our aim is to train recorders for making possible automatic species recognition based on sound recordings for a larger part...
The second international workshop on Orthoptera bioacoustics in Europe (TEOSS project) took place in Sierra de La Demanda in Spain, from 7 to 16 August. The meeting of more than 30 orthopterists was important for the future of Orthoptera studies in Spain. It allowed...
The first TEOSS workshop allows to explore the region of Verona (N.E. of Italy) and collect data on its Ortopterofauna. We visited five localities during the training course and were able to detect 46 species of grasshoppers and bush crickets. A field trip report...
We have participated at ECOC IV, the fourth European Congress of Orthoptera Conservation organized in Rovereto (Italy), from 4 to 6 July, where we could present TEOSS to the colleagues from all over Europe and forster collaboration in the project.Florent Prunier has...
TEOSS "The European Orthoptera Sound System" is an on-going project (2024-2025) that aims to develop training for recording Orthoptera sound productions in Europe. TEOSS group is a joint organization between organizations located in the three main Mediterranean...