In the late 1800s, more than a hundred years before smartphones and weather apps, a physicist discovered you could step outside on a summer night, listen carefully, and estimate the temperature with ...

DOTHAN, Ala. (WTVY) - It’s no secret that wildlife can give little hints about current and future weather. But, did you ever consider crickets as a means for telling temperature? The loud and ...

On a warm summer night, when everything else grows quiet, the air begins to buzz with a steady rhythm. Crickets chirp from the bushes, from tree branc.

A male tree cricket sings from a baffle. Tree crickets are the only crickets known to make baffles which are acoustic tools that increase their singing efficiency immensely. Few other cricket make or ...

In rural Missouri, there are many tales, sayings and folklore about the state’s weather. “The darker the woolly worm, the worse the winter.” “Red sky in morning, sailors take warning; Red sky at night ...

To make sure their appeals for a mate can be heard loud and clear, tree crickets (Oecanthus henryi) cut a hole in a leaf and call through it, using it like a megaphone. Called ‘baffling’, it is one of ...

Male insects, such as crickets and katydids, create sounds by rubbing their wings together, a process called stridulation. The sounds of these insects, which have existed for millions of years, can be ...