Insects can make sounds in five principal ways. Perhaps the best known is by “stridulation” — rubbing one body part again another. This is how grasshoppers, crickets, some beetles and ...

Grasshoppers are having to change their song -- one of the iconic sounds of summer -- to make themselves heard above the din of road traffic, ecologists have discovered. The study is the first to ...

Being mid-summer, grasshoppers have now reached the peak of their activity and can be heard 'singing', 'chirping' or to be more precise,'stridulating' in lush grassland on warm sunny days. To attract ...

While all this might sound somewhat exotic, Ireland is full of grasshoppers and bush crickets. We share this island with 12 species of orthoptera: five grasshoppers, five bush crickets and two ...

The chirping sound of the grasshopper's song is produced when the insect rasps the tiny, file-like pegs on the hind legs against the prominent, toughened veins running along the fore wing cases.

Being mid-summer, grasshoppers have now reached the peak of their activity and can be heard 'singing', 'chirping' or to be more precise,'stridulating' in lush grassland on warm sunny days. To ...

For the nature enthusiast, one of the many evocative sounds of high summer is the chirping of grasshoppers. The Common Field Grasshopper is one of our most... Sunday, 15 June 2025.

We have five different types of grasshopper and five bush-crickets all sharing their song, or stridulating, as they call for mates.