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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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 ...

Last Friday, citizen scientists fanned out across New York City, and learned the sounds of seven different kinds of crickets and katydids in the urban wild. They were particularly anxious to document ...

Katydids join the chorus of nighttime sounds on hot summer nights in Missouri. Listen for their raspy mating calls from treetop perches this week. If you’ve stepped out to enjoy the night air lately, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

IN 1984 Edward Wilson, a Pulitzer-prize-winning biologist at Harvard, published his theory of “biophilia”. Humans, he argued, “subconsciously seek [connections] with the rest of life” and nature ...