It's known as the cocktail-party problem: in the cacophony of sound made by insects in a spring meadow, how does one species recognize its own song? Insects such as the tree cricket solve this problem ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dolbear's Law shows you can estimate outdoor temperature by counting the chirps of a snowy tree cricket and applying a simple ...

In the presence of predators, male tree crickets, but not females, change their mate-finding behavior, according to a new study from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc). The cricket chirps on ...

Among many male crickets, larger body size means a lower pitched song and more attention from the lady crickets. But male tree crickets break this rule: The pitch of their song changes with ...

A male tree cricket sings from a baffle. Tree crickets are the only crickets known to make baffles which are acoustic tools that increase their singing efficiency immensely. Few other cricket make or ...

Some tree crickets amplify their calls with leaves, giving them an opportunity to mate that they otherwise might miss. By Katherine J. Wu For better or for worse, female tree crickets tend to ...

I enjoy the insect chorus heard through our open windows, and late-summer evenings are best. The populations for many of the music producers are at their peak. The activity of the nighttime singing ...

Newswise — It's known as the cocktail-party problem: in the cacophony of sound made by insects in a spring meadow, how does one species recognize its own song? Insects such as the tree cricket solve ...

As temperature changes, tree crickets can adjust their ears at a cellular and therefore mechanical level to match the changing frequency of each others song. It's known as the cocktail-party problem: ...