Heat waves are pushing temperatures up this summer and breaking records across the world. It’s affecting people, crops and crickets. The cold-blooded insects chirp faster as temperatures rise.

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 ...

Crickets are the buglers of September and October. These noisy insects make their way indoors for warmth and shelter once temperatures start to drop, says University of Missouri Extension and Lincoln ...

The sound of crickets chirping often sets the ideal summer nighttime scene. While it might not be exactly pleasant to imagine countless crickets nearby, rubbing their body parts together to create a ...

Insects communicate in lots of different ways, for many reasons. Some, such as butterflies and beetles, use color, patterns and other visual cues to attract mates or warn potential predators that they ...

Crickets chirp faster when it’s hotter outside, according to an old scientific observation. As parts of the world experience record-breaking heat, they’ll be especially busy this summer. A chorus of ...

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 ...