Cambridge University scientists in England say female crickets react to, and make steering corrections toward, the sound pattern in a male cricket's song. James Poulet and Berthold Hedwig recorded the ...

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 ...

When animals 'sing' sitting on the ground -- such as when crickets chirp -- their volume and reach increase dramatically, by as much as ten-fold. This result contradicts long-held beliefs in the field ...

Crickets are nothing if not noisy, but populations on two Hawaiian islands have embraced silence by rapidly losing sound-producing wing structures to avoid infestation by deadly fly larvae. In Current ...

What are the sounds of silence? With all due respect to Simon and Garfunkel, the most common answer is “crickets.” This noisy insect has somehow become synonymous with no sound at all. “Crickets are ...