CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, Ohio - Jiminy Crickets. It sounds like fall out there. Like clockwork, the sound of crickets began to creep into my summer evenings during the first week in August, just when summer ...

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 ...

For many, an insect chorus is the sound of summer. But many Morning Edition listeners wrote in to say they needed help identifying the bugs making the sounds. MONTAGNE: Perhaps surprisingly, most of ...

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 ...

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 ...

NERC Research Fellow in Evolutionary Biology, University of St Andrews Crickets are nothing if not noisy, but populations on two Hawaiian islands have embraced silence by rapidly losing ...