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 ...

Many listeners have been fascinated by a recording that was supposedly produced from slowed-down tapes of crickets chirping, producing something that sounds remarkably like a human chorus: Composer ...

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 ...

Through the years I have admonished readers to “Slow down and take a closer look.” This time around I would like to suggest that you “Close your eyes and listen.” That’s right: just listen. The wind ...

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I don't recall hearing nighttime insects before I stupidly left Portland in 2011. After I came back in 2014, I noticed crickets (and maybe other critters) making it sound like a warm Southern night ...

For the past 14 years, visitors to the mothballed Lower Saucon Elementary School on Wassergass Road have found it deserted. If they return this fall, they’ll still hear crickets, but this time it ...

Back when she was a graduate student, Robin Tinghitella learned something surprising: Birds can deduce the genetic quality of potential mates through smell. "I thought that was the craziest thing I ...