The purpose of Permostridulus’s sound-making is unknown. The sound may have attracted mates or repelled rivals, just as the chirping of crickets does today. Alternatively, the rasping sound may have ...

Why don’t female crickets chirp? – Avery, age 8, Los Angeles Insects communicate in lots of different ways, for many reasons.

It produces a buzzing or pulsing-type noise. Sure, the sound of crickets chirping is synonymous with an awkward or eerie ...

When you whistle, the tone is produced by air whistling through a constriction. The tail chirp is produced by vibration of ...

Male crickets on Oahu followed suit within two years; eventually, silent males outnumbered their chirping peers. Sonia Pascoal from Scotland’s University of St Andrews and her colleagues sought to ...

When the cheerful chirping of a cricket abruptly stops, a predator is lurking nearby ... or it’s already too late. But it is the moment the insect can play dead to avoid being eaten. Hiroshi ...

Crowned by four of Holly and The Crickets’ best-loved and biggest-selling singles - That’ll Be the Day, Not Fade Away, Maybe Baby and Oh, Boy! - The Chirping Crickets was one of only two ...