Premium
Field Cricket Spacing, and the Phonotaxis of Crickets and Parasitoid Flies to Clumped and Isolated Cricket Songs
Author(s) -
CADE WILLIAM H.
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
zeitschrift für tierpsychologie
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.739
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1439-0310
pISSN - 0044-3573
DOI - 10.1111/j.1439-0310.1981.tb01278.x
Subject(s) - cricket , parasitoid , field cricket , orthoptera , attraction , biology , zoology , ecology , hymenoptera , linguistics , philosophy
Nearest neighbor analyses of the field crickets Gryllus integer, G. veletis , and Teleogryllus oceanicus demonstrated that calling ♂♂ were aggregated. Broadcasts of conspecific song to calling ♂♂ indicated that attraction of neighboring ♂♂ maintained inter‐male distances. Broadcasts of G. integer song through aggregated and isolated loudspeakers showed that the total number of crickets and parasitoid flies, Euphasiopteryx ochracea , attracted to aggregated loudspeakers was greater than that to an isolate. The average number of attracted crickets and flies in an aggregation was comparable to the isolated total.