Within just 5 years, singing has nearly died out among a population of cricket on a Hawaiian island, researchers report. A mutation for silence has spread so fast because an invasion of deadly flies ...

Kauai’s crickets were in trouble. They were being victimized by a parasitic fly that targeted them by listening for their chirps. Once the fly found them, its larvae burrowed inside the crickets and ...

Crickets are nothing if not noisy, but populations on two Hawaiian islands have embraced silence by rapidly losing sound-producing wing structures to avoid infestation by deadly fly larvae. In Current ...