Crickets belong to the order Orthoptera, which also includes grasshoppers and locusts. Maybe people often mistake crickets ...

Crickets are a singing insect commonly found outside homes in rural landscapes. Find out more about these creatures, what they do, and how to prevent and get rid of them.

This sense of the word crickets has yet to make the Oxford English Dictionary (though it surely will eventually). Still, it ...

Jerusalem crickets do not have wings and can not fly. They are slow walkers and don't pose much of a threat to humans, as long as you keep your fingers away from their mouths.

You might be hearing a familiar chirping in your house. 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 ...

It took several years for the crickets of Kauai to fall silent. When Marlene Zuk first visited the Hawaiian island in 1991, she heard the insects chirping away, loudly and repeatedly.

Crickets love tall grass because it provides them with both shelter and moisture. If you’ve ever let your lawn get long, you’ll notice crickets popping out when you do finally find a moment to ...

Len Webb learns about an insect’s role in society while snacking on stir-fried crickets in this So, What Do You Do? segment. When you’re living in a brain-heavy region like Philadelphia – you may find ...

How do crickets even make that noise? It’s the males who are the noise makers. Male crickets have this little scraper thingy on one wing that they rub against a series of bumpy files on the ...

Cricket chirps can reach 100 decibels. So why do we use them as a byword for ‘silence’?