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:
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Science
- Pub Date:
- December 1975
- DOI:
- 10.1126/science.190.4221.1312
- Bibcode:
- 1975Sci...190.1312C