We all know how annoying crickets can be but their chirping is actually a love song. Why they chirp and what attracts them to your Arizona home.

A summer night is never truly silent. The warm air outside fills with the sounds of trilling frogs, droning cicadas, distant owl calls, and above it all, the unmistakable chorus of crickets chirping.

The sound of crickets chirping often sets the ideal summer nighttime scene. While it might not be exactly pleasant to imagine countless crickets nearby, rubbing their body parts together to create a ...

Top Image credit:European Journal of Entomology 100 (2003): 581-86. We live on a planet thrumming with the diverse voices of communicative animals. But it was not always this way. For more than 90 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dolbear's Law shows you can estimate outdoor temperature by counting the chirps of a snowy tree cricket and applying a simple ...

Insects communicate in lots of different ways, for many reasons. Some, such as butterflies and beetles, use color, patterns and other visual cues to attract mates or warn potential predators that they ...

Have you ever read the book “The Very Quiet Cricket?” It’s about a young cricket who can’t chirp until he grows up. My friend Rich Zack reminded me of that book when we talked about your question.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A summer night is never truly silent. The warm air outside fills with the sounds of trilling frogs, droning cicadas, distant owl ...