🎄 Jump into Day 6 with #Orthoptera - grasshoppers, crickets, bush-crickets 🦗
#FunFact: #Stridulation is the sound made by rubbing wings or legs, & is key for reproduction. Some species of fish, snakes & spiders can stridulate as well.
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#InsectAdvent
New #OpenAccess work in #RESEcolEnt
Of walls & floors: how physical structures affect mating song detection in stridulating orthopterans
doi.org/10.1111/een.70017
#Stridulation #Orthoptera #Acoustics #SensoryEcology
@sheborg.bsky.social @robwilsonmncn.bsky.social @callomac.bsky.social @wiley.com
He's starting to get the hang of it!
#bugsky #cricket #gryllus #stridulation
The lowland streaked tenrec uses its spines to communicate via ultrasonic noises
boingboing.net/2025/03/27/the-lowland-s...
#cool_animals #lowland_streaked_tenrec #madagascar #stridulation #ultrasonic #boingboing
