The mid-summer lull in nature noise is about to come to an end. Crickets, katydids, grasshoppers and cicadas are about to take up their part of the annual outdoor orchestral. They’ll begin ...

The song of crickets fills the air. Crickets, the heralds of autumn, are truly living up to their name. As the cries of cicadas fade and the chirping of crickets begins, we start reaching for ...

When you stop and listen, Colorado is the stage for an insect cacophony this time of year. Crickets sing in the grasses, and the trees are full of shrilling cicadas and the scree-scree-scree calls of ...

Back when she was a graduate student, Robin Tinghitella learned something surprising: Birds can deduce the genetic quality of potential mates through smell. "I thought that was the craziest thing I ...

I don't recall hearing nighttime insects before I stupidly left Portland in 2011. After I came back in 2014, I noticed crickets (and maybe other critters) making it sound like a warm Southern night ...

Although this week's weather has dampened things a bit, this is the time of year when the woodlands get noisy with the sounds of insects. Two of the most obvious groups are the cicadas, which "sing" ...

Back in the Midwest, in the summers I listened to cicadas calling and crickets chirping — sounds that don’t happen here in Southeast Alaska. We hear mosquitoes and bees buzzing, of course, but that’s ...

To make this familiar summer sound, the male cricket holds his nerve and “stridulates” – rubbing his back legs together in order to entice a female. He knows this makes him vulnerable. What a female ...

You can’t see the singers in the shadows, but you sure can hear them! Their music fills the night air— pulsating, chirping, clicking and buzzing from every direction. The concert starts soon after ...

The sound of crickets carried on the warm breeze of a summer evening is romantic, even relaxing. But when you take that same symphony and drop it in your basement, suddenly it becomes a cacophony of ...