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Stridulation
Stridulation Strid`u*la"tion, n. The act of stridulating. Specifically: (Zo["o]l.) (a) The act of making shrill sounds or musical notes by rubbing together certain hard parts, as is done by the males of many insects, especially by Orthoptera, such as crickets, grasshoppers, and locusts. (b) The noise itself. Note: The crickets stridulate by rubbing together the strong nervures of the fore wings. Many grasshoppers stridulate by rubbing the hind legs across strong nervures on the fore wings. The green grasshoppers and katydids stridulate by means of special organs at the base of the fore wings.

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- stridulations Pachycondyla apicalis Stridulations from a Pachycondyla apicalis worker. Pachycondyla verenae Stridulations from a Pachycondyla verenae worker...
- pallidula stridulations Soldier Stridulations from a Pheidole pallidula soldier. Worker Stridulations from a Pheidole pallidula worker. Queen Stridulations from...
- pedipalp segments. Stridulations in males of many spider species play a role in courtship, and although H. pluchei female stridulations also play a role...
- forewings (stridulation). These sounds are produced mainly by males to attract females, though in some species the females also stridulate. Gr****hoppers...
- upon in comparison to individuals of the species with an inability to stridulate. The four Megaloblatta species have separate distributions: M. blaberoides...
- contact, including thanatosis, freezing, bobbing, autotomy, fleeing, stridulation, retaliation and chemical secretions. Some animals respond to attacks...
- Males also stridulate for courtship, though usually only when all other tactics have failed. Males have also been observed stridulating to one another...
- captivity they are fed crickets and roaches. The stridulating organ, used to make a hissing sound (stridulation), consists of a large cluster of fine close-set...
- long-whiskered catfish, drumming sounds are used as a threatening signal and stridulations are used as a defense signal. Kaatz investigated 83 species from 14...
- got within 1 meter of a velvet ant, the velvet ant would begin stridulating. Stridulations became more frequent as the predator moved closer to the velvet...