noisy time for insects. The season’s long, sunny days are filled with their sounds. Crickets are singing loudly to serenade a mate, the calls of water boatmen are reverberating around the riverbanks ...

I love this time of year. Midsummer is a great time for a wide variety of reasons. The pressures of springtime mating are over for the birds and mammals. It is a time of abundance and relaxation ...

An autumn evening stroll often brings with it a cacophony of cricket ... such amazing sounds? And what are the exacting standards set by their love interests? Singing insects have captured hearts ...

A haiku composed by Takashi Matsumoto (1906-1956) goes: “Bell crickets have taken a rest from singing in a chorus of insects.” Onomatopoeic words, such as those expressing the sounds of ...