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 ...

The mid-summer lull in nature noise is about to come to an end. Crickets, katydids, grasshoppers and cicadas are about to take up their part of the annual outdoor orchestral. They’ll begin ...

While the volume of annual cicadas is slowly fading during the day, the 33 reported different species of crickets, grasshoppers and katydids are ready to keep the concert rolling into late summer and ...

Have you been spotting more crickets than usual in your house? How about stink bugs?Praying mantises and katydids are also out in force. A local expert says the bug population is booming right ...

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 ...

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 ...