I live in rural Centre County and I enjoy being surrounding by Mother Nature. I love the seclusion, the sights, the smells and especially the natural sounds. I love spring, when the forest is filled ...

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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 ...

Submitted photo ... This image shows a Carolina leaf-roller cricket. Tree crickets are rarely seen, but their summer symphonies are familiar sounds. Spending my summers in Mississippi, I remember hot, ...

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 rapid drumming of the pileated woodpecker can be heard throughout much of the United States and Canada. Its call is a loud cuk-cuk-cuk, which rises and falls in pitch and volume. Listen for the ...

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 ...

Through the years I have admonished readers to “Slow down and take a closer look.” This time around I would like to suggest that you “Close your eyes and listen.” That’s right: just listen. The wind ...

Although this week's weather has dampened things a bit, this is the time of year when the woodlands get noisy with the sounds of insects. Two of the most obvious groups are the cicadas, which "sing" ...

D. T. Gwynne. Cornell University Press, New York. 2001. Pp. 317. Price $42.50, hardback. ISBN 0-8014-3655-9 The Tettigoniidae are an ancient and culturally important taxon, so much so that they ...

To most people, the sound of Chicago is the bat cracking at Wrigley Field, children splashing along the lakefront, or the L train rumbling overhead. To Giovanni Aloi and Chris Hunter, the city sounds ...