Crickets, family Gryllidae (also known as "true crickets"), are insects related to grasshoppers and katydids (order Orthoptera). They have somewhat flattened bodies and long antennae. Crickets are ...

The splay-footed cricket is one of the biggest, most scary-looking insects, and it’s been that way for a long, long time. A fossil recently uncovered in Brazil reveals these crickets have looked more ...

The songs that crickets and katydids sing at night to attract mates can help in monitoring and mapping their populations, according to US researchers, whose study of Orthoptera species in central ...

Scientists are asking Arlingtonians to brave the great outdoors Friday night and listen to bugs. The effort of part of the 7th annual “Cricket Crawl” to “crowdsource” data on the crickets and katydids ...

Two billion people worldwide already eat 1,900 insect species—and the United Nations hopes that, one day, Americans will, too. Though many struggle with wrapping their minds and mouths around this ...