Residents in a town in Nevada who have to put up with swarms of crickets invading their town each summer have found that playing loud rock music - The Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin in particular - keeps the insects at bay. So the people of Tuscarora have started turning their stereos on as soon as the Mormon crickets start to wake each morning.
One resident, Laura Moore, told the Wall Street Journal: "Crickets kind of sleep at night, so I would wake up first thing in the morning to get the music on and we would shut the music off at night". Apparently another local, Elaine Parks, discovered the power of rock songs in deterring the crickets after reading an article about how in the thirties residents found sounding a large gong had a similar effect.
Presumably it's the vibrations the insects don't like. Look, that's what's Neveda State Entomologist Jeff Knight reckons: "The vibrations may deter the bugs, but I don't know of any research that says yes or no".