The Jungle Bug; A Nighttime Search for Katydids in the Far Reaches of Ecuador The Washington Post | October 9, 1988| | . This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

I've been always afraid of the dark. As a boy, I kept to a set pattern of going to bed: After turning the lights out, I would run across the room and leap into my bed, high enough so that the monsters underneath didn't grab my feet and drag me down. When I was a young man and had to walk the dog at night, I always went out with running shoes. It was part of my strategy to be inside in a flash if someone jumped from behind that old maple.

So it was with some surprise that I found myself agreeing last February to venture out with a group of entomologists into the Ecuadorean jungle-in the ...

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