If you're lying awake on a summer night and a noise from outside is keeping you up, chances are the creature responsible is ...

Back in the Midwest, in the summers I listened to cicadas calling and crickets chirping — sounds that don’t happen here in Southeast Alaska. We hear mosquitoes and bees buzzing, of course, but that’s ...

Modern insects are versatile wing conversationalists. Crickets can scrape a leg against a wing or rub two wings together. Some grasshoppers beat their wings like castanets; others crackle and snap the ...

When you stop and listen, Colorado is the stage for an insect cacophony this time of year. Crickets sing in the grasses, and the trees are full of shrilling cicadas and the scree-scree-scree calls of ...

Brian Stark, assistant professor of music, launched the three-day showcase “Bug Music,” which integrates music with the scientific study of insects, on Saturday, Feb. 1. Colgate University’s liberal ...