Re: How do crickets make the noise they do?

Date: Sun Sep 3 19:54:46 2000
Posted By: Eric Maass, Director, semiconductors / communication products
Area of science: Zoology
ID: 967914561.Zo

Message:


Hello, Ana - how impressively perceptive of you! Yes, crickets do use their wings to make sounds.
They rub one wing, called the "scraper", against the other wing, called the "file", and produce a pulse of sound at about 5 KHz
frequency.

 
Click here on or the image for more details.


Here are a couple other sites with more details or related information about sound production in crickets:

http://www.colostate.edu/Depts/Entomology/courses/en507/student_papers_1995/miyasato.html


http://www.biologists.org/JEB/198/03/jeb9492.html

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