Posted on behalf of Dick Smith.

My own two cents:
Wil Hershberger gave this talk at the Howard County Bird Club, and it 
was interesting to birders as well as insect enthusiasts. He is a very 
good speaker, and one of the fun things about his talk is that he 
demonstrates how the frequency-lowering effect of the SongFinder device 
(invented primarily for birding) opens up a whole new world even for 
those of us who haven't lost high-frequency hearing. (For instance, I 
can hear the song of a Blackburnian Warbler, but when those frequencies 
are lowered they seem amazingly louder and clearer even though the 
song's volume hasn't changed.)

June Tveekrem

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March 2009 meeting of the Maryland Entomological Society

Speaker: Dr. Wil Hershberger
Title: "The Songs of Insects"

Location: UMBC, Bioscience Bldg., Rm. 004 (basement)
Date/Time: March 20, 8:00 p.m. (Lecture begins at 8:15 p.m.)

Wil Hershberger works for the USDA as a molecular biologist studying the 
underlying genetics of fruit tree diseases. He has been an avid 
naturalist most of his life and photography has become an extension of 
this passion. His nature photography has received much acclaim through 
publications in various journals and books. He has published in Nature 
Photographers Magazine, Adirondak Explorer, National Parks, Appalachian 
Trail Conference, and Oasis Magazines, Media Books, Gladstone Calendars 
as well as various books and CD’s produced by the Cornell Laboratory of 
Ornithology. He recently published “The Songs of Insects” – a splendid 
full color book and audio CD coauthored with Lang Elliott. He will give 
a brief history on the study of insect song in the U.S. and the natural 
history and songs of numerous species of orthopterans and cicadas native 
to North America. Wil has thousands of sound recordings archived at 
Cornell’s Laboratory of Ornithology, Macaulay Library of Natural Sounds 
ranging from birds to bugs and has taught Bird Identification classes 
for the Potomac Valley Audubon Society for over 20 years.

Contact Dick Smith, MES Secretary, at  if you 
would like driving/ parking/ campus route directions for this meeting.

-- 
June Tveekrem
Columbia, Maryland
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