What are the sounds of silence? With all due respect to Simon and Garfunkel, the most common answer is “crickets.” This noisy insect has somehow become synonymous with no sound at all.

"There is more than one way to silence a cricket," says Nathan Bailey of the University of St Andrews. "Evolution by natural selection has produced similar adaptations from different genetic ...

The term “crickets” is often used when someone asks a question and gets no response. Crickets has come to mean absolute silence; no communication. This expression was derived from the cinematic ...

NERC Research Fellow in Evolutionary Biology, University of St Andrews Crickets are nothing if not noisy, but populations on two Hawaiian islands have embraced silence by rapidly losing sound ...