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 ...

Among those that produce sounds in Pennsylvania are the familiar Carolina grasshopper most often spotted in open, dry areas with exposed soil, which produces a series of snaps and clicks, and the ...

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 ...

On a summer evening, a soft breeze rustles quietly through the trees. The hum of cicadas fills the air. Bumblebees buzz through flower gardens. Grasshoppers bounce while crickets chirp from the ...

An unusually wet year is responsible for the biblical-seeming swarm of pallid-winged grasshoppers, according to entomologists. By Neil Vigdor A swarm of winged insects enveloped a pyramid: Sound ...

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 ...

One hot summer’s day a Grasshopper sat on a blade of grass enjoying the sunshine. ‘What a fine day,’ he said. ‘The sun’s shining and I’ve got as much grass as I can eat.’ The ...

Edible bugs might sound unappetizing to many Westerners, but they've long been included in traditional diets in other regions of the world, which are now home to more than 2 billion people ...

Until the grassland species began emerging last month, I have seen only five butterflies, namely two brimstones, and three small whites.

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 ...

One hot summer’s day a Grasshopper sat on a blade of grass enjoying the sunshine. ‘What a fine day,’ he said. ... He rubbed his back legs against his wings and made a loud buzzing sound.