When male crickets lose their song, female crickets interact differently. Song makes them social, especially if they have the ...

Male Hawaiian field crickets typically sing to attract a mate. However, some of these males have evolved a genetic mutation, which means they fall silent, unable to chirp, known as flatwing. While ...

Female crickets don’t have a file or scraper on their wings. So, they can’t chirp. They can hear the male cricket’s song, though. Crickets have hearing organs on their front legs.

Crickets aren't just nighttime noisemakers—discover why their chirps seem louder after dark and what drives this seasonal chorus.

Stridulation has been most thoroughly studied in grasshoppers, crickets and katydids, which all are members of an insect group called orthopterans, meaning “straight wings.” ...

Remembrance Of Things Past Influences How Female Field Crickets Select Mates Date: April 29, 2009 Source: University of California - Riverside Summary: Biologists researching the behavior of field ...

Adamo found that IIV-6/CrIV also changes the crickets’ behaviour in other subtle ways. A sick cricket will typically try to ward off an invading virus by releasing immune chemicals from its fat ...

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