“To me, it sounds like the sound effect you hear from spaceships in an old Star Trek movie.” “It’s a whirring sound,” added JoVonn Hill, MSU Entomological Museum director and insect taxonomy assistant ...

Crickets, like birds, use a sense to find a mate: sound ... can have cascading effects on any other organisms they encounter. "Noise doesn't just affect insects,” Tinghitella says.

Tunnel-boring larvae, feet-stomping termites, head-banging beetles and a choir of tuneful songsters join Paul Evans in this unusual sound safari around an 'orchestra' of insects. Show more In an ...

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 ...

An incredibly advanced hearing system which enables a group of insects ... the sound travelling inside the tracheal tubes is also amplified because the tube has the effect of an acoustic horn ...

An incredibly advanced hearing system which enables a group of insects ... the sound travelling inside the tracheal tubes is also amplified because the tube has the effect of an acoustic horn ...

Ahhh, the gratifying sound of another insect biting the dust on a humid summer night ... The authors went on to show that blue light (467 nm) also had a lethal effect on fruit fly eggs. Any adults ...

A cooing or murmuring sound is interspersed with one ... In her research, Fowler-Finn studies the effects of climate change on insects’ songs. As the climate warms, she has discovered that ...

Bats mimic the buzzing sound of stinging insects to scare off predatory owls. This type of acoustic trickery, when a harmless animal mimics a dangerous one, has been found previously in some ...