Summer is a busy, noisy time for insects. The season’s long, sunny days are filled with their sounds. Crickets are singing loudly to serenade a mate, the calls of water boatmen are reverberating ...

Insect sounds are either incidental (produced as a by-product of ... and the duration and timing of sound production. Studies of crickets show that information about which individuals in a population ...

Male crickets in Hawaii softened their chirps once parasitic flies started hunting them. Now, it seems, the flies are homing in on the new tunes.

A haiku composed by Takashi Matsumoto (1906-1956) goes: “Bell crickets have taken a rest from singing in a chorus of insects.” Onomatopoeic words, such as those expressing the sounds of ...