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Category Archives: Music
Living With Waltzing Mosquitoes
As I noted in a previous post, Bug Zappers are heavily marketed to the public as a way to kill mosquitoes. Some of them have catchy names with catchy advertising. For example, the bug zapper in the ad below is … Continue reading
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Insulting With Insects: Music
Today, I continue the theme of “Insulting With Insects“. The insults work better on those who find insects disgusting than they do on entomologists who find insects to be fascinating and may not appreciate the sting of the sharp tongue. … Continue reading
Pittsburgh. They’re Back!
Mayflies are sentinels of water quality. The immatures live in the water where they feed on algae or dead plant material (detritus). Many species are especially sensitive to pollution and will go locally extinct if their larval habitat is polluted … Continue reading
Posted in by jjneal, Environment, Music, News, Sports
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Carrying a Tune
Many species of crickets have males that make sounds of only a single pitch. In sound, pitch is related to the frequency of the vibration. The simple story for male house crickets, Acheta domestica, is that larger males have a … Continue reading
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Music To Our Ears
Music can be defined as An art of sound in time that expresses ideas and emotions in significant forms through the elements of rhythm, melody, harmony… By this definition, insects make music. Some insects, including crickets and cicadas actively make … Continue reading
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Message From the Past
We infer that crickets and katydids in the distant past communicated with sound based on the presence of sound receptor organs (ears) on fossils. The other evidence of sound communication by crickets and katydids comes from fossils that contain the … Continue reading
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