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 ...

Top Image credit:European Journal of Entomology 100 (2003): 581-86. We live on a planet thrumming with the diverse voices of communicative animals. But it was not always this way. For more than 90 ...

You might be hearing a familiar chirping in your house. Maybe it's keeping you up at night. That chirp is the sound of crickets rubbing their wings or other body parts together. Crickets chirp as a ...

Heat waves are pushing temperatures up this summer and breaking records across the world. It’s affecting people, crops and crickets. The cold-blooded insects chirp faster as temperatures rise.

Have you ever read the book “The Very Quiet Cricket?” It’s about a young cricket who can’t chirp until he grows up. My friend Rich Zack reminded me of that book when we talked about your question.

The purpose of the circuit is to imitate the chirping of the cricket for use as gadgets for amusement and props while being powered by 5V to 12V batteries. The purpose of the circuit is to imitate the ...