Why would a sterile male cricket mate with an infertile female? On the surface, this behaviour makes no sense: sex takes energy and effort, and there’s nothing in it for either of these partners ...

Why don’t female crickets chirp? – Avery, age 8, Los Angeles. Insects communicate in lots of different ways, for many reasons. Some, such as butterflies and beetles, ...

What a female cricket can find, so too can the predators and parasites that wish to consume or infect him. ... As with many insects, we simply don’t know what is happening to most of the rest.

Female short-tailed ground wētās have two sets of ... Females of a cricket-like insect found in New Zealand consume male ejaculate after sex to give them enough energy for the following six ...

Many insects mate by transferring their sperm in a capsule, or ampulla. In decorated crickets, Gryllodes sigillatus, an additional edible present, known as a nuptial gift, is offered to the female ...

They also reproduce incredibly quickly — a female cricket laying up to 1,500 eggs in three or four weeks. This is a much faster rate than breeding cattle, where the ratio of breeding to market ...

Biologists researching the behavior of field crickets have found that female crickets remember attractive males based on the latter's song, and use this information when choosing mates. The ...

For Nemerson, it all started with a cricket tortilla chip. She went to a sustainability conference in May 2017 where Chirps Chips passed out samples of their tortilla chips made with cricket flour.

With one eye on the lucrative Chinese market just across the border, an entrepreneur has launched Kyrgyzstan's first cricket farm and is producing high-protein insect flour and fried cricket snacks.

Why don’t female crickets chirp? – Avery, age 8, Los Angeles Insects communicate in lots of different ways, for many reasons.

There’s always a new super food. Kale. Turmeric. Avocados. Coconut oil. They’ve all made their way into kitchens throughout the country. Could crickets and other insects be the next big thing ...