In many parts of Latin America, the parks are the place to go to if you want to listen to Mariachi music. The bands play at dusk and you can take a date, sit on a concrete bench and listen to the ...

As youngsters, my sister Laurel and I occasionally stayed overnight at my cousin Paula’s house, with my Aunt Viola supervising. We slept in an upstairs bunk with the windows open as the crickets sang.

British researchers have discovered that the way crickets rub their wings together to sing — is about the closest an insect can come to a dating app. In many parts of the world, crickets' song is a ...

The dog days of summer are accompanied by a familiar chirp. The sometimes-hissy, sometimes-clicky noises of cicadas — fairly large insects with long wings — are the soundtrack to hot evenings in the ...

When animals 'sing' sitting on the ground -- such as when crickets chirp -- their volume and reach increase dramatically, by as much as ten-fold. This result contradicts long-held beliefs in the field ...

"The primary goal of this Web site is to enable users to identify crickets, katydids, and cicadas from America north of Mexico. The males of most species in these groups make loud, persistent calls ...

It's a bug's world this summer. Cicadas have emerged from their 17-year slumber, and Mormon crickets are devouring just about every form of plant matter in their path. First in Flight Cicadas fly.

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Insects communicate in lots of different ways, for many reasons. Some, such as ...