<p><strong>This bushcricket may be tiny, but males can chirp as loud as a power saw to attract females, a new study says.</strong></p><p>Using highly calibrated microphones, researchers recorded male bushcrickets in Colombia singing at frequencies of about 74 kilohertz. The human ear can hear in a range of about 20 hertz to 20 kilohertz.</p><p dir="ltr">The males produce sound through "stridulation," or rubbing their wings together. One wing acts as a scraper to rub against a row of teeth-like grooves on the other wing. (<a href="http://vimeo.com/71249298">Watch a video of the bushcricket chirping</a>.)</p><p><strong></strong></p><p dir="ltr">The bushcricket is notable for another reason: It had been thought extinct, said study co-author Ben Chivers.</p><p>Since 1891, no new descriptions of the species&nbsp;<em>Arachnoscelis arachnoides</em> had been recorded or published. But after one of his co-authors rediscovered a population of the bushcricket in Colombia, the researchers were able to gather a sample and study their cacophonous chirps, according to the study, published recently in the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=133198&amp;CultureCode=en"><em>Journal of Bioacoustics</em></a>. (Also see&nbsp;<a href="http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/12/121121-grasshoppers-bugs-insects-singing-science-animals/">"Urban Grasshoppers Sing Louder."</a>)</p><p>"The species had not been described for over a hundred years, so it was quite a good thing we could get a hold of some and create a detailed description," said Chivers.</p><p><em>—Jaclyn Skurie and Rachel Kaufman</em></p>