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 ...

Male insects, such as crickets and katydids, create sounds by rubbing their wings together, a process called stridulation. The sounds of these insects, which have existed for millions of years, can be ...

The seasons have again shifted gears and fall brings with it cooler temperatures, a host of colors, and the sound of crickets as the sun goes down. Each season has its own personality, and their songs ...

The songs that crickets and katydids sing at night to attract mates can help in monitoring and mapping their populations, according to US researchers, whose study of Orthoptera species in central ...

As youngsters, my sister Laurel and I occasionally stayed overnight at my cousin Paula’s house, with my Aunt Viola supervising. We slept in an upstairs bunk with the windows open as the crickets sang.

Western biologists have developed an innovative way to reconstruct how crickets sing, based on the physical formation of the chirping insects' wings, using measurements from preserved samples and ...