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...
Interview with José Carlos Sires
José Carlos Sires is a Sevillian naturalist who has overcome the loss of vision at the age of six to become an expert in bioacoustics. Initially known for his extraordinary ability to identify the Iberian birds by their songs, Sires has recently expanded his expertise...
Announcement : International meeting of TEOSS in Andalusia
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,...
TEOSS Iberian Meeting 2025 in Cuenca
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.
83rd International Scientific Conference of the University of Latvia
Thanks to the network that European orthopterists have been building for many years and the support of TETTRIs, we had the opportunity to present the progress of TEOSS at the Biology section of the recent international congress held in Riga, Latvia. We were honored to...
Interview with Filippo Buzzeti
Filippo Maria Buzzetti is a prominent Italian researcher specializing in the bioacoustics of orthopterans. As a member of the Museo Civico di Rovereto Foundation, Buzzetti has played a crucial role in advancing knowledge about sound production in these fascinating...
Introduction to insect sound production
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...
The song of the crickets
Who hasn't heard the cricket's song on a calm summer night? Or, during the day, felt deafened by the cicadas' chorus? Many other insect songs often go unnoticed. By paying attention with our ears to any meadow or field, we can now hear many other insect sounds that we...
TEOSS workflow
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...
Field Trip Report: Orthoptera present at Sierra La Demanda
The TEOSS project has visited one of the most interesting mountains in the Spanish geography... and yet without recent information on its Orthoptera fauna. We were able to generate a lot of new information between us, although, unfortunately, high mountain species...
TEOSS workshop #2 : La Demanda (Spain)
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...
Field Trip Report: Orthoptera seen at Verona workshop
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...