When animals 'sing' sitting on the ground -- such as when crickets chirp -- their volume and reach increase dramatically, by as much as ten-fold. This result contradicts long-held beliefs in the field ...

Hawaii’s male crickets can’t hide from their buzzing boogeymen for long. In just a handful of years, cricket-killing parasitic flies have evolved hearing that’s more sensitive to their prey’s new, ...

Colette and Mike Reynolds awoke Sunday morning to find a nightmare scene of thousands of creepy crickets infesting their home in Elko, Nevada — and the city itself. Known as Mormon crickets, Colette ...

ELKO, Nev. (KSL) - It looks like something out of a horror movie. Millions of crickets have swarmed several counties in Nevada. The insects are covering the ground, trees, shrubs and even climbing the ...

ELKO, Nev. (AP) — Dana Dolan was driving through her small Nevada hometown when she thought she had come upon a gory crash. The ground surrounding Elko’s stretch of Interstate 80 looked as if it had ...

British researchers have discovered that the way crickets rub their wings together to sing — is about the closest an insect can come to a dating app. In many parts of the world, crickets' song is a ...

Residents in Elko have tried to use chemicals, pressurized washers and hot water mixed with bleach to remove the insects, which stink when they’re dead. By Eduardo Medina Millions of Mormon crickets ...

Mr. Hyde is the author of “A Primer for Forgetting: Getting Past the Past” and the editor of “The Essays of Henry D. Thoreau.” Beginning in August and well into the fall here in New England, the ...