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 form of communication. Male crickets chirp to attract ...

It produces a buzzing or pulsing-type noise. Sure, the sound of crickets chirping is synonymous with an awkward or eerie ...

which presume the ground is a hindrance to sound transmission. When animals ‘sing’ sitting on the ground— such as when crickets chirp— their volume and reach increase dramatically ...

He’s an insect scientist at Washington State University. He told me only adult male crickets make sound. Sometimes they chirp to defend their territories. It’s how they tell other male ...

That is, not the insects themselves, but rather the sound that crickets make. The chirping of crickets is the sound of nature on a summer night, and it has become a kind of cultural shorthand that ...

And they can definitely get loud, with some species capable of ... The old wives tale that you can predict the weather based on a cricket's chirp may have some truth. It apparently originated ...