BEFORE I GO panfishing in the late summer, I like to listen to a little music. Field crickets, katydids, and grasshoppers are among the insect world’s most accomplished noisemakers. Their very best ...

I was mowing the grass this past weekend, and I saw them for the first time this year: crickets — a yard full of the small black, jumping insects. This reminded me of two things. One, fall is rapidly ...