One of the joys of my life is to spend spring and summer evenings on the screened porch of my home in Monteagle, Tennessee, listening to a serenade of chirping crickets. It is music to my ears. I am ...

During an afternoon stroll around Morton Arboretum, Maria Malayter’s Apple Watch buzzed twice with an unusual notification. The screen warned her of a “loud environment” with sound levels reaching 90 ...

"The primary goal of this Web site is to enable users to identify crickets, katydids, and cicadas from America north of Mexico. The males of most species in these groups make loud, persistent calls ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Insects communicate in lots of different ways, for many reasons. Some, such as ...

Insects communicate in lots of different ways, for many reasons. Some, such as butterflies and beetles, use color, patterns and other visual cues to attract mates or warn potential predators that they ...

As some of the loudest singing insects on Earth are back to chirp at a volume similar to an airplane’s, Americans are rejoicing or covering their ears. Listen to some of the species. By Aimee Ortiz It ...

We recently did a show about the cicada double brood emergence. Billions of the bugs are above ground this year. And the conversation... took a bit of a turn... towards whether they can be eaten.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — A rare re-emergence of a certain type of insect is set to happen this spring. After more than a decade, two broods of cicadas will make their return— and one will appear right here ...

The cicadas are back and it’s a noisy place out in the backyard with all that insect racket going on. Interestingly, only a few groups of insects communicate by rubbing their body parts together. What ...

Bill Haltom is an author who resides in Memphis and Monteagle. He is the author of "Why Can’t Mother Vote? Joseph Hanover and the Unfinished Business of Democracy." One of the joys of my life is to ...

NEW MARKET, Va. -- In the absence of birdsong at this time of year, when the birds go quiet, an altogether new choir appears. Think of it as curtain-raising time for the singing insects. Crickets and ...

If you're lying awake on a summer night and a noise from outside is keeping you up, chances are the creature responsible is ...