WASHINGTON — They look like scary spiders, live in the dark and can jump more than a foot with each hop. Plus, they scare the heck out of people who are squeamish about bugs. "They're a menace to ...

The pest goes by many names. I have a friend who calls them mutant spiders. The exterminator at my neighbor's house calls them criders. The bug is also called spider cricket, spricket, cave cricket ...

Temperatures may have warmed back up to late-summer range, but recent nighttime forays into the 50s have already brought the chirping of crickets around the outside of houses, and sometimes even ...

When it's time to design new robots, sometimes the best inspiration can come from Mother Nature. Take, for example, her creepy, but incredibly athletic spider crickets. Johns Hopkins engineering ...

Researcher Malcolm Burrows was sitting next to a South African pond eating lunch one day when he heard an odd noise coming from the water. What he found surprised him: pygmy mole crickets hopping off ...

Researchers at Johns Hopkins University are dissecting crickets' jumps, not with a scalpel, but with high-speed cameras to analyze their patterns of movement. Professor of Mechanical Engineering at ...

If you watch science fiction movies, the robots of the future look like us. The truth is, though, many tasks go better when robots don’t look like us. Sometimes they are unique to a particular job or ...

New Jersey has already had its fair share of yucky insect invasions, from the huge swarms of cicadas two years ago to spotted lanternflies that have been pestering suburban yards and city buildings ...

It's Leap Day! What better day to celebrate the jumping champions of the animal world? From kangaroos to fleas, lots of animals get around by jumping. There are land mammals, sea mammals (think whales ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- It was a crazy scene on the subway this week, when live crickets suddenly began jumping all over passengers and causing panic and chaos. As CBS2's Brian Conybeare reported, it ...

Inside a warehouse in an industrial Van Nuys neighborhood, thousands of mature crickets engage in uninhibited stridulation as their landlords look on. For some people, the mating calls may symbolize ...