Crickets belong to the order Orthoptera, which also includes grasshoppers and locusts. Maybe people often mistake crickets for grasshoppers, which is easy to understand. These small, cylindrical ...

You’ve probably heard the familiar chirping of crickets outside your home. Some people consider these noisy little critters to be pests. Some consider them to be harmless but annoying. Others consider ...

A new kind of Black Plague is upon us — a plague of little black crickets. They're in the corners of bedrooms at night, keeping us awake with their chirping. They're creeping under doors and through ...

The scientific name for these bugs is Stenopelmatus fuscus. There are at least 100 species of Jerusalem crickets. They are found in the Western United States, between California and Oklahoma, and as ...

Parts of Nevada are being overrun by an explosion of flightless, ground-dwelling cannibalistic insects creating nightmares of Biblical proportions. Business and residents said they are battling ...

To a human, microplastics are very small at less than 5 millimeters (mm) wide. But to an insect, microplastics might be the ...