Heat waves are pushing temperatures up this summer and breaking records across the world. It’s affecting people, crops and crickets. The cold-blooded insects chirp faster as temperatures rise.

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 ...

Photo Credit: iStock Chirping crickets, fluttering butterflies, and looping grasshoppers make up the soundtrack of New ...

With a one-of-a-kind museum specimen, researchers recreated the chirp of ancient cricket relatives that droned alongside the dinosaurs. By Jack Tamisiea Whether it’s a cicada’s earsplitting drone, a ...

Crickets chirp faster when it’s hotter outside, according to an old scientific observation. As parts of the world experience record-breaking heat, they’ll be especially busy this summer. A chorus of ...

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 ...