In many parts of Latin America, the parks are the place to go to if you want to listen to Mariachi music. The bands play at dusk and you can take a date, sit on a concrete bench and listen to the ...

Entomologist Richard Zack of Washington State University fields lots of “What the heck is this?” inquiries from the public about weird-looking insects in our region. But the Jerusalem cricket tops the ...

Have you ever wondered if there are more insects out at night than during the day? We set out to answer this question by combing through the scientific literature. We searched for meaningful ...

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 ...

A staff worker washing and preparing harvested crickets for roasting at Valala Farms in Antananarivo, Madagascar on Nov. 19, 2019. Sylvain Hugel is one of the world’s foremost experts on crickets of ...

Back when she was a graduate student, Robin Tinghitella learned something surprising: Birds can deduce the genetic quality of potential mates through smell. "I thought that was the craziest thing I ...

The raspy cricket is the champion of chomp. Found in the rainforests of north-eastern Australia, this cricket has the strongest bite of around 650 insect species collected from four continents. Their ...