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 ...

DOTHAN, Ala. (WTVY) - It’s no secret that wildlife can give little hints about current and future weather. But, did you ever consider crickets as a means for telling temperature? The loud and ...

Something Wild fan, Michael Carrier, wrote in recently, he said “If possible could you do a program about identifying some of the more common sounds you hear at dusk or night in New Hampshire.” Yeah, ...

Male insects, such as crickets and katydids, create sounds by rubbing their wings together, a process called stridulation. The sounds of these insects, which have existed for millions of years, can be ...

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 ...

Something Wild fan, Michael Carrier, wrote in recently, he said “If possible could you do a program about identifying some of the more common sounds you hear at dusk or night in New Hampshire.” Yeah, ...