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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 ...

For many, an insect chorus is the sound of summer. But many Morning Edition listeners wrote in to say they needed help identifying the bugs making the sounds. MONTAGNE: Perhaps surprisingly, most of ...

We’ve all heard the range of sounds to be made electronically from mostly discrete components, but what [Kelly Heaton] has achieved with her many experiments is a whole other world, the world of ...

On autumn evenings, listen for a chorus of crickets. Female crickets deposit eggs under soil to overwinter and hatch in the spring. Male crickets don’t get their wings until their final molt at ...

Edward S. Thomas, who wrote this column for 59 years, knew his bugs. The lawyer-turned-naturalist was especially smitten with crickets and katydids in the order Orthoptera. Friends marveled at how he ...

One evening a few weeks ago my wife and I played cards with our daughter and her husband at their home near Asheville, North Carolina. A cool breeze drifted through an open window and so did the ...

The songs that crickets and katydids sing at night to attract mates can help in monitoring and mapping their populations, according to US researchers, whose study of Orthoptera species in central ...

You can’t see the singers in the shadows, but you sure can hear them! Their music fills the night air— pulsating, chirping, clicking and buzzing from every direction. The concert starts soon after ...

The sweet fall singers fill the air with melancholy now. Crickets and katydids chirp and rasp and call from dawn to dusk then through to dawn again. I have always dreaded these harbingers of winter ...

Attempting to Film African Wild Dogs in the Flooded Okavango African wild dogs proved to be one of the toughest species to film. - [Narrator] In some wild dog species, males bring food to the female, ...