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 ...

When you stop and listen, Colorado is the stage for an insect cacophony this time of year. Crickets sing in the grasses, and the trees are full of shrilling cicadas and the scree-scree-scree calls of ...

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 ...

The first day of Spring is just around the corner now. We’re dreaming of warmer days – and nights. Summer evenings. Front porch, bark yard, lazy twilight, and the sounds of a summer night. Bug sounds.

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 ...

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 ...