I love this time of year. Midsummer is a great time for a wide variety of reasons. The pressures of springtime mating are over for the birds and mammals. It is a time of abundance and relaxation ...

located male calling crickets by sound and made them into live incubators for their eggs. The parasitic larvae would hatch and eat their cricket hosts from the inside out. Twelve years and 20 ...

Other species emit odors to appeal to potential mates. Female spider crickets generally lay their eggs in the soil. Nymphs hatch after several weeks and mature over the winter. Adults and nymphs ...

Crickets are parasites—for some ant colonies. The species of ant crickets from the Myrmecophilus genus can infiltrate ant colonies, despite the potentially lethal defences that ants have ...