The sound of crickets chirping often sets the ideal summer nighttime scene. While it might not be exactly pleasant to imagine countless crickets nearby, rubbing their body parts together to create ...

Both cricket males and females have wings folded over their backs. Male wings are longer and it is he who will vibrate these appendages to make the chirping sounds that we so often hear in late ...

“In most cricket species the chirping sounds result from the scraper on the left wing being drawn across the file on the left wing on the underside of the overlapping right wing, setting these ...

It is evening, in the deepest of the Kakamega rain forest. We have been watching birds that land here from the Eurasian region, to roost and escape the winter season.

The summer evenings in the Thompson-Okanagan region are filled with the sounds of insects rubbing legs and wings together to ...

Only male crickets have wing structures that produce sound, but females are very good at following the signal.

The chirping of crickets and grasshoppers is a familiar sound on Estonia's warm summer nights. Tiit Teder, an associate professor of entomology at the University of Tartu, tells ERR about the insects ...

European field crickets send their songs out into the world. Among crickets, males are the only ones that make noise because females don’t have sound-producing structures on their wings.