For many, an insect chorus is the sound of summer. But many Morning Edition listeners wrote in to say they needed help identifying the bugs making the sounds. MONTAGNE: Perhaps surprisingly, most of ...

Summer is a busy, noisy time for insects. The season’s long, sunny days are filled with their sounds. Crickets are singing loudly to serenade a mate, the calls of water boatmen are reverberating ...

EASTHAMPTON -- Late summer and early fall bring a chorus of insect sounds to the New England evenings. Naturalists will lead two programs, sponsored by Arcadia Wildlife Sanctuary, focusing on insect ...

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 ...