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 ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- At the beginning of the year, the relative silence of the winter night was broken only by the calls of great horned owls. In late March, spring peepers, diminutive tree frogs, ...

Male insects, such as crickets and katydids, create sounds by rubbing their wings together, a process called stridulation. The sounds of these insects, which have existed for millions of years, can be ...

The insects fashion and use "baffles"—sound controllers—made of leaves to produce sound more efficiently. Jason G. Goldman reports. That observation was in 1960. Since then the club of tool users has ...