Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dolbear’s Law shows you can estimate outdoor temperature by counting the chirps of a snowy tree cricket and applying a simple ...

A male tree cricket sings from a baffle. Tree crickets are the only crickets known to make baffles which are acoustic tools that increase their singing efficiency immensely. Few other cricket make or ...

In rural Missouri, there are many tales, sayings and folklore about the state’s weather. “The darker the woolly worm, the worse the winter.” “Red sky in morning, sailors take warning; Red sky at night ...

To make sure their appeals for a mate can be heard loud and clear, tree crickets (Oecanthus henryi) cut a hole in a leaf and call through it, using it like a megaphone. Called ‘baffling’, it is one of ...

Male insects, such as crickets and katydids, create sounds by rubbing their wings together, a process called stridulation. The sounds of these insects, which have existed for millions of years, can be ...

A wide, but not deep, planting hole makes it easier to safely remove burlap and wire baskets. These tree crickets were paralyzed by a female wasp and then used to provision a nest of grass clippings ...

When animals 'sing' sitting on the ground -- such as when crickets chirp -- their volume and reach increase dramatically, by as much as ten-fold. This result contradicts long-held beliefs in the field ...

In the late 1800s, more than a hundred years before smartphones and weather apps, a physicist discovered you could step outside on a summer night, listen carefully, and estimate the temperature with ...