Matija Gogala celebrates his 77th birthday

researchers of modern insect physiology and bioacoustics not only in Europe, but also worldwide. The authors and the „Arbeitskreis Zikaden “ congratulate him warmly and wish him many good and busy years to come, and most of all, many more exiting days in the field that keep him busy! Matija‘s curriculum vitae Born in 1937 he has been interested in insects since his youth, just as he has been generally attracted to sound and music and, in particuar, the sounds of nature, from birdsong, the frogs croaking, the summer chirping of field crickets to the melancholic singing of tree crickets in autumn. He soon began to collect insects and to visit the curators of the Slovenian Museum of Natural History in Ljubljana. He chose the true bugs to collect and to “study” while leafing through the museum guidebook with his friend. His friend Bastian Kiauta, later professor at the University in Utrecht (Netherlands) chose dragonflies and damselflies. Both are still studying their chosen groups and are internationally renowned experts