Biking at dusk in last week's heat I let the noisy insect cacophony envelop me. We're familiar with the dog-day cicadas buzzing by day but who takes over when evening falls? The two main players are ...

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 ...

I enjoy the insect chorus heard through our open windows, and late-summer evenings are best. The populations for many of the music producers are at their peak. The activity of the nighttime singing ...

MAKE comes through for us Geekdads again, with a piece on how to figure the temperature by counting cricket chirps. This one is pretty much guaranteed to make your geeklet's eyes pop at least a little ...

Common name - Tree crickets (Ball et al., 1942). Geographic distribution - some species are widely distributed in North America (Ball et al., 1942). In Colorado Oecanthus niveus (DeGeer) (snowy tree ...