Title: Acoustically Orienting Parasitoids: Fly Phonotaxis to Cricket Song
Abstract: Larviparous female tachinid flies are attracted to taped cricket songs. In the laboratory flies deposit larvae on a cricket mounted to a speaker; the larvae burrow through the cricket's exoskeleton and develop internally. These acoustically orienting parasitoids probably influence male reproductive behavior and sexual competition in crickets.
Publication Year: 1975
Publication Date: 1975-12-26
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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