While humans might not be making too much noise in the oceans, above ground it’s a whole different story. In fact, even insects are having to adapt to the huge amount of noise pollution created by ...

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 ...

Distinctive soundtracks of summer are playing out across the country, each field, farm, lake and bog alive with its own unique array of creatures and their calls. Swifts and swallows are still making ...

Urban grasshoppers are changing their tune. According to a new paper in Functional Ecology, males that dwell by busy roads boost the bass of their courtship songs to be heard above traffic. Previous ...

Modern insects are versatile wing conversationalists. Crickets can scrape a leg against a wing or rub two wings together. Some grasshoppers beat their wings like castanets; others crackle and snap the ...

Back in the Midwest, in the summers I listened to cicadas calling and crickets chirping — sounds that don’t happen here in Southeast Alaska. We hear mosquitoes and bees buzzing, of course, but that’s ...