In many parts of Latin America, the parks are the place to go to if you want to listen to Mariachi music. The bands play at dusk and you can take a date, sit on a concrete bench and listen to the ...

The mid-summer lull in nature noise is about to come to an end. Crickets, katydids, grasshoppers and cicadas are about to take up their part of the annual outdoor orchestral. They’ll begin ...

Mozart probably wasn’t thinking of insects when he composed “Eine Kleine Nachtmusik,” translated from German as “a little night music.” One has only to listen to the symphony emanating from insects in ...

Beneath the strawberry moon in late June, we listened to green frogs belting out their banjo-like twang from a pond at Wright Woods near Vernon Hills. It was 10 p.m., and though the forest preserves ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — It's time to VERIFY all the buzz about the bugs enjoying this unseasonably-warm weather. Turns out, the noise you'll soon hear reverberating throughout North Carolina is 17 years in ...

Last year at this time, all the talk was about the emergence of billions of Brood X cicadas for the first time in 17 years. By early summer, they were all gone, not to be seen again for another 17 ...