Sounds of Insects

Buzzing doesn’t begin to cover the sounds made by the approximately one million species of insects in the world today. This album, recorded and narrated by Albro T. Gaul, includes samples of butterflies and dragonflies in flight, flies caught on flypaper, Japanese beetles on a rose, and insects walking and chewing. In the narration and the liner notes, Gaul provides information about each insect and sound. One interesting fact provided by Gaul is that counting a cricket’s chirps for fifteen seconds and adding forty to the total number of chirps will give you the current temperature (in degrees Fahrenheit). Through facts such as this one, Sounds of Insects provides a closer look and listen to the oft-overlooked world of insects that surrounds us.

Track Listing

101	Suburban sounds (Crickets and temperature; Crickets chirp at slow speed	Albro T. Gaul	02:58
102	Insect flight (Inside a hornet; pre-flight warm-up; fatigue experiment)	Albro T. Gaul	04:46
103	Insect flight (Wing beat vs. load; flight-light experiment; in a hornet nest)	Albro T. Gaul	03:42
104	Flying insects (Mosquitoes;bumble bee;May beetle;Japanese beetle;warble fly;flowerfly; European hornet)	Albro T. Gaul	05:23
105	Cicada Warm-up and flight (Tent caterpillar moth; underwing moth; large long-horn beetle screaming; clock beetles)	Albro T. Gaul	03:36
106	Wasp chewing (False katydid; cicada song; cicada and plane; evening insects)	Albro T. Gaul	05:01
201	Katydids	Albro T. Gaul	00:42
202	longhorn beetle walking	Albro T. Gaul	00:38
203	Small longhorn beetle shriek	Albro T. Gaul	00:38
204	Viceroy Butterfly Walking	Albro T. Gaul	00:43
205	Viceroy butterfly in flight	Albro T. Gaul	00:52
206	Harpalus Beetle Walking	Albro T. Gaul	01:20
207	Fly caught on flypaper	Albro T. Gaul	01:41
208	Underwing moth walking	Albro T. Gaul	01:20
209	Grape-leaf beetle walking	Albro T. Gaul	01:57
210	Drangonfly in flight	Albro T. Gaul	00:41
211	Mud-dauber wasp flight	Albro T. Gaul	01:45
212	Crabre Argus (Wasp) in nest	Albro T. Gaul	00:42
213	Hover fly	Albro T. Gaul	01:13
214	Deerfly (Chrysops niger)	Albro T. Gaul	00:42
215	Deerfly (Chrysops vittatus)	Albro T. Gaul	01:02
216	Japanese beetles on a rose	Albro T. Gaul	01:09
217	Drone fly (Eristalis)	Albro T. Gaul	01:02
218	Bumblebee (Two toned flight)	Albro T. Gaul	01:05
219	Cicada song	Albro T. Gaul	03:48
220	Spider (Salticus sp.) walking	Albro T. Gaul	01:08