Air Date: Week of September 16, 2011

Transcript

[INSECT SOUNDS]

GELLERMAN: We leave you this week with an insect instrumental. The Nebraska
conehead is part of the katydid or long-horned grasshopper family. Bet you didn’t know
that…but it’s not quite accurately named.

[SOUND OF THE NEBRASKA CONEHEAD]

GELLERMAN: Yes, they have broad coneheads, but their range extends far beyond
Nebraska - as far south as Mississippi, and east to Maryland. Coneheads can be green or
brown. They live along roadsides in weeds and brush, at the edge of fields and woods,
and can often be found hanging on a stem of grass, conehead down.
Lang Elliott recorded the Nebraska Conehead, and it’s included on his CD called “The
Song of Insects.”

[ON AND OFF BUZZING SOUNDS OF THE NEBRASKA CONEHEAD]

[INSECT SOUNDS: Lang Elliot “Nebraska Conehead” from The Songs Of Insects.]