Some tree crickets amplify their calls with leaves, giving them an opportunity to mate that they otherwise might miss. By Katherine J. Wu For better or for worse, female tree crickets tend to ...

I enjoy the insect chorus heard through our open windows, and late-summer evenings are best. The populations for many of the music producers are at their peak. The activity of the nighttime singing ...

Among many male crickets, larger body size means a lower pitched song and more attention from the lady crickets. But male tree crickets break this rule: The pitch of their song changes with ...

As temperature changes, tree crickets can adjust their ears at a cellular and therefore mechanical level to match the changing frequency of each others song. It's known as the cocktail-party problem: ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- At the beginning of the year, the relative silence of the winter night was broken only by the calls of great horned owls. In late March, spring peepers, diminutive tree frogs, ...

The insects fashion and use "baffles"—sound controllers—made of leaves to produce sound more efficiently. Jason G. Goldman reports. That observation was in 1960. Since then the club of tool users has ...