Mole crickets, Scapteriscus acletus, attracted to a synthetic male calling song, can use visual cues as they end their flight. The insects landed significantly (P<0.001) more often on stripes than on ...

If you think you’d know a cricket by the chirp it makes, you’d never figure out a mole cricket was nearby. These crickets make a noise that sounds like a “guttural growl,” said my trusty Audubon field ...

Ah, summer nights and the soothing melodic sounds of crickets. Another sound is mixed into the melody. The song is almost pure tone, modulating into chirps. Could it be a southern mole cricket ...

When Malcolm Burrows first heard the sound of a pygmy mole cricket leaping from water, he was enjoying a sandwich. Burrows, a zoologist from the University of Cambridge, was visiting Cape Town and had ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- At the beginning of the year, the relative silence of the winter night was broken only by the calls of great horned owls. In late March, spring peepers, diminutive tree frogs, ...

Inside Out presenter Chris Packham probes the undergrowth in search of crickets and finds these rare insects have made their home in a most unusual, but rather appropriate place. They are big, brash ...