The sound of crickets chirping often sets the ideal summer nighttime scene. While it might not be exactly pleasant to imagine countless crickets nearby, rubbing their body parts together to create a ...

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 ...

To most people, the sound of Chicago is the bat cracking at Wrigley Field, children splashing along the lakefront, or the L train rumbling overhead. To Giovanni Aloi and Chris Hunter, the city sounds ...

As the weather cools and fall advances, all our senses are called into play. On any trip into the countryside, our vision is excited by the rich colors of maple leaves and goldenrod and aster blossoms ...

NHPR is celebrating 25 years of Something Wild by playing some of our favorite shows from the archives. You'll want to listen to this show, produced by Andrew Parrella in August 2017. Something Wild ...

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 a ...

You’ve probably heard the familiar chirping of crickets outside your home. Some people consider these noisy little critters to be pests. Some consider them to be harmless but annoying. Others consider ...