On a muggy June morning, Emily Bick winds through a field of knee-high corn, just north of Madison, Wisconsin. It feels like that quiet, anticipation-filled moment before a concert: Tech people are ...

Researchers at Tel Aviv University discovered for the first time that animals respond to sounds made by plants. The study, published in the journal eLife, found that female moths avoid laying eggs on ...

Male cicadas produce a loud sound to attract females. Insects, despite their small size, can produce surprisingly loud sounds. At this time of the year the most notable insect sound is the loud ...

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.

As the weather warms an evening chorus of animals and insects emerge, most of which are seeking love while running the risk of becoming entangled in a deadly web from those seeking prey. A chorus of ...

From Indonesia to Wisconsin, farmers all over the world struggle with a huge problem: pests. On top of that, it's tough for farmers to identify... How listening to the sounds of insects can help ...