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...
TEOSS workshop #1 : Verona (Italy)
An international workshop on Orthoptera bioacoustics, part of the TEOSS project (Training for the European Orthoptera Sound System), was held at the Civic Museum of Natural History in Verona, from 8 to 12 July. It was financed by the TETTRIS consortium and organised...
TEOSS at ECOC IV
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.This project has...
TEOSS: The European Orthoptera Sound System
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...
Announcement of TEOSS in Italy: first workshop
The TEOSS project announces its bioacoustics workshop in Verona (Italy) "Recording Orthoptera Sounds" on the dates of July 8 to 12, 2024.This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe Research and Innovation programme within the framework...
Announcement: TEOSS in Spain and run in Spanish !
The TEOSS project announces its bioacoustics workshop in Sierra de La Demanda (Spain) «Sonidos de ortópteros: una iniciación» on the dates of August 7 to 11, 2024.As the title implies, this workshop will be teached in Cervantes' mother tongue, plain and oldschool...