Standing in a tropical forest at night, you might hear what sounds like a small bird calling from high in the canopy. Listen ...

Katy did? Katy didn’t. The evening chorus of Q&A wing scrapes is on. Add a multitude of stridulating tree crickets to the ambient katydid mix and the muggy night air is saturated with sound. In the ...

On a muggy June morning, Emily Bick winds through a field of knee-high corn, just north of Madison, Wisconsin. It feels like that quiet, anticipation-filled moment before a concert: Tech people are ...

It’s an observation as old as humans gathering around campfires: Light at night can draw an erratically circling crowd of insects. In art, music and literature, this spectacle is an enduring metaphor ...

Long exposure combining images taken at the side of the Po River in San Matteo delle Chiaviche, Italy. (Alberto Ghizzi Panizza/REDA&CO/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) As summer rolls around, ...

Tanya Latty co-founded and volunteers for conservation organisation Invertebrates Australia, is former president of the Australasian Society for the Study of Animal Behaviour and is on the Education ...

From Indonesia to Wisconsin, farmers all over the world struggle with a huge problem: pests. On top of that, it's tough for farmers to identify... How listening to the sounds of insects can help ...

A multiple-exposure photograph of insects circling a light at night. Samuel Fabian, CC BY-ND It’s an observation as old as humans gathering around campfires: Light at night can draw an erratically ...