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 ...

When I was a teenager, my artist mother began to talk quite a lot about crickets. My sister and I wondered if perhaps she was seeing the odd critters in our house. We were not too concerned about the ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) --Starting in late July, Minnesotans started to hear summer symphonies from insects. Some say it feels like summer, while others find it simply annoying. So, Michael from St. Paul ...

In the dead of night -- or day -- you hear an ear-piercing sound coming from inside the walls of your home that literally bugs you. Well, that’s because it is a bug. Crickets are notorious for ...

Ask most people about crickets and you’ll probably hear that they’re all pretty much the same: just little insects that jump and chirp. But there are actually dozens of different species of field ...

Crickets are the buglers of September and October. These noisy insects make their way indoors for warmth and shelter once temperatures start to drop, says University of Missouri Extension and Lincoln ...

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.

Insects communicate in lots of different ways, for many reasons. Some, such as butterflies and beetles, use color, patterns and other visual cues to attract mates or warn potential predators that they ...

EDITOR'S NOTE: This was first published in August 2018. MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) --Starting in late July, Minnesotans started to hear summer symphonies from insects. Some say it feels like summer, while ...