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 ...

Although this week's weather has dampened things a bit, this is the time of year when the woodlands get noisy with the sounds of insects. Two of the most obvious groups are the cicadas, which "sing" ...

When a tree cricket rubs its wings together, tiny features of the wing rub against each other to create a species-specific chirp. Animals, including humans, feel sound as well as hear it, and some of ...

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 ...