Several years ago, I learned about a trauma-informed exercise that helps tether a wandering, worried mind back to a calmer state. Then, you write one word or small picture related to each sense on the ...

Male insects, such as crickets and katydids, create sounds by rubbing their wings together, a process called stridulation. The sounds of these insects, which have existed for millions of years, can be ...

NEW MARKET, Va. -- In the absence of birdsong at this time of year, when the birds go quiet, an altogether new choir appears. Think of it as curtain-raising time for the singing insects. Crickets and ...

The songs that crickets and katydids sing at night to attract mates can help in monitoring and mapping their populations, according to US researchers, whose study of Orthoptera species in central ...

As youngsters, my sister Laurel and I occasionally stayed overnight at my cousin Paula’s house, with my Aunt Viola supervising. We slept in an upstairs bunk with the windows open as the crickets sang.

The oldest known fossil of a singing cicada reveals that these insects were making music during the Eocene epoch — long before humans existed. “The fossil has been in the collection of the Senckenberg ...

Liz Childress, of the Weedon Island Preserve Cultural and Natural History Center, is the WacKy TALES WEDNESDaY Guest Speaker! Learn about the buzzes, chirps, and clicks heard in the west-central ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. It's a noisy place out there in the backyard, even after you turn off the mower and the leaf blower, ...