If you're lying awake on a summer night and a noise from outside is keeping you up, chances are the creature responsible is ...

Pictured is a cicada that recently emerged in Oktibbeha County as part of a 13-year periodical brood. The rare emergence not only brought more insects out of the ground, but also additional noise as ...

A group of treehoppers sit on a plant stem in University of Missouri Professor Rex Cocroft's lab. Humans can't hear the vibrations these insects use to communicate with, but Cocroft has been able to ...

While the volume of annual cicadas is slowly fading during the day, the 33 reported different species of crickets, grasshoppers and katydids are ready to keep the concert rolling into late summer and ...

The "wall of sound" created by this year's cicada invasion may help people with tinnitus. This is according to Fatima Husain, a researcher at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. It's a noisy place out there in the backyard, even after you turn off the mower and the leaf blower, ...