Colorado Public Radio

What’s making that noise? Chasing down the insect sounds of summer

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 ...
CNN

Breakthrough discovery shows that moths listen to plants — and avoid the noisy ones

When a plant is stressed, it doesn’t keep quiet about it. You won’t hear the plant’s cry because it’s in the ultrasonic range — too high-pitched for human ears — but, for decades, scientists have been ...