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 ...

HEDGESVILLE, W.Va. -- Once summer begins its slow turn toward fall, the night air becomes filled with the rhythmic sounds of insects. All those chirps, trills, buzzes and clicks are music to Wil ...

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 ...

Why an electronic cricket? Many people like the cricket sound specially if they live in a big town. This electronic cricket circuit works in pulses, so the battery life is prolonged, the current ...

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 ...

For the past 14 years, visitors to the mothballed Lower Saucon Elementary School on Wassergass Road have found it deserted. If they return this fall, they’ll still hear crickets, but this time it ...

With a one-of-a-kind museum specimen, researchers recreated the chirp of ancient cricket relatives that droned alongside the dinosaurs. By Jack Tamisiea Whether it’s a cicada’s earsplitting drone, a ...