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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lisa Rainsong of the Cleveland Institute of Music spent four months surveying the “singing insects” of Oakton Preserve and Observatory Park last summer and fall. Now, in a public presentation of her ...

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 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 ...