Modern insects are versatile wing conversationalists. Crickets can scrape a leg against a wing or rub two wings together. Some grasshoppers beat their wings like castanets; others crackle and snap the ...

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 ...

With a one-of-a-kind museum specimen, researchers recreated the chirp of ancient cricket relatives that droned alongside the dinosaurs. By Jack Tamisiea Whether it’s a cicada’s earsplitting drone, a ...

Different insects flap their wings in different manners. Understanding the variations between these modes of flight may help scientists design better and more efficient flying robots in the future.

When birds or insects fly, they displace air with their wings – that is how it works. Maybe sometime at night you have disturbed an owl and heard the flap of its large wings. This sound is a frequency ...

Although this week's weather has dampened things a bit, this is the time of year when the woodlands get noisy with the sounds of insects. Two of the most obvious groups are the cicadas, which "sing" ...

Mosquitoes flap their wings not just to stay aloft but for two other critical purposes: to generate sound and to point that buzz in the direction of a potential mate, researchers at Johns Hopkins ...

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Matmos has made it their mission to make electro-acoustic music funky and fun. For their new album, Return to Archive, Drew Daniel and M.C. Schmidt plundered the Smithsonian Folkways library for ...