Acoustically Orienting Parasitoids: Fly Phonotaxis to Cricket Song

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William H. Cade · The University of Texas at Austin

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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.

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Orthoptera Research and Taxonomy Animal Behavior and Reproduction Lepidoptera: Biology and Taxonomy

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Published in: Science

Volume 190, Issue 4221, pp. 1312-1313

DOI: 10.1126/science.190.4221.1312

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