“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 ...

Humans can't hear the vibrations these insects use to communicate with, but Cocroft has been able to amplify them into sound by using ... and behavioral effects of animal vibrations.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...