Cambridge University scientists in England say female crickets react to, and make steering corrections toward, the sound pattern in a male cricket's song. James Poulet and Berthold Hedwig recorded the ...

New Yorkers are hearing things these days — and it is coming from the bushes. It is the sound of concrete crickets, little devices created by artist Michael Dory that play bits of music and make ...

To make this familiar summer sound, the male cricket holds his nerve and "stridulates" – rubbing his back legs together in order to entice a female. He knows this makes him vulnerable. What a female ...

Crickets are nothing if not noisy, but populations on two Hawaiian islands have embraced silence by rapidly losing sound-producing wing structures to avoid infestation by deadly fly larvae. In Current ...