We humans tend to spread and frolic about wherever we please, a development that has been found to harm animals’ environments and health, and therefore ultimately our own. That may be the effect on ...

New research has found that the mating behavior of crickets is significantly affected by traffic noise and other human-made sounds. When human-made noise pollution was present, the females didn't take ...

Most people have suffered through noise pollution, whether it's the thumping of a jackhammer or a screaming siren. Defined by the EPA as "unwanted or disturbing sound," noise pollution is predicted to ...

The purported sonic attacks began in late 2016 when diplomatic personnel began experiencing unexplained health problems, including headaches, nausea, and other ailments after hearing penetrating ...

Male crickets play tunes non-stop to woo a mate or keep enemies away. But they're not playing their song with the body part you're thinking. Ask most people about crickets and you’ll probably hear ...

Biologists at Lehigh University and the University of Maryland have identified a cricket living in Hawaii's forests as the world's fastest-evolving invertebrate. Finicky mating behavior appears to be ...

Cricket mating calls are a classic component of fall and though their chirping annoys some folks, it is beautiful in its own way. In the fall, the chirping that you hear is produced specifically by ...

The structure of the sound generators in the wings of male bush-crickets is critical for producing tonality within the long-range mating calls that attract distant females, a major new study has shown ...

Researchers discovered that smaller crickets poke holes in leaves to amplify the sounds of their chirps, which appears to give them greater success at mating. Male tree crickets advertise their ...