When you stop and listen, Colorado is the stage for an insect cacophony this time of year. Crickets sing in the grasses, and the trees are full of shrilling cicadas and the scree-scree-scree calls of ...

Listen closely. A cooing or murmuring sound is interspersed with one that sonically resembles Velcro separating. Another is similar to ticking tones that resonate and subside at random intervals.

A tiny water-dwelling insect has the loudest song for its size in the world, researchers find — a mating call it probably makes with its genitals. Discovering how such a little insect makes such a big ...

If you don’t mind indulging me here, take a second and listen. Do you hear that screeching sound coming through the window? It’s louder than the white noise of the fan, louder than the TV or traffic.

When some insects are scared or threatened by predators, they secrete smelly compounds. Scientists converted the secretions into sounds, creating an eerie melody that's unpleasant to humans. See more ...