CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, Ohio - Jiminy Crickets. It sounds like fall out there. Like clockwork, the sound of crickets began to creep into my summer evenings during the first week in August, just when summer ...

Camel crickets may have been largely overlooked by scientists over the past several decades, but the results of a new citizen science project, released Sept. 2, reveal the insects may outnumber humans ...

Not a big fan of scary-looking insects with long, spiky legs and a tendency to cannibalize each other? Here is some bad news for you: An invasive species of camel cricket native to Asia has been ...

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 mid-summer lull in nature noise is about to come to an end. Crickets, katydids, grasshoppers and cicadas are about to take up their part of the annual outdoor orchestral. They’ll begin ...

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 ...