With a one-of-a-kind museum specimen, researchers recreated the chirp of ancient cricket relatives that droned alongside the dinosaurs. By Jack Tamisiea Whether it’s a cicada’s earsplitting drone, a ...

The Essay celebrates the musicality of Earth’s insect singers. Autumn Cricket Song. A beautiful song of stridulation that begins in summer and edges into the melancholy of autumn. Show more The Essay ...

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 ...

From the hit song of the summer, to the worst sound a stand-up comedian can hear. This week, we’re hopping into the world of crickets, with some key differences between them and their cousins.

Whether it’s a cicada’s earsplitting drone, a bee’s blaring buzz or a cricket’s incessant chirp, insects are a staple of summer’s score. And arthropods have been making a racket for hundreds of ...

The Essay celebrates the musicality of Earth’s insect singers. 4. Autumn Cricket Song. Perhaps the most beautiful of all insect song. A stridulation that begins in summer and edges into the melancholy ...