Questions tagged [insect]
Questions related to how insects detect/process and produce sounds/vibrations, and how they communicate through these modalities.
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Which people/groups/departments are working on soil bioacoustics?
I am a new PhD student at the University of Liverpool working on developing bioacoustic monitoring of belowground invertebrates in savanna habitats. It would be great to know if there are any other ...
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Shotgun microphone position for low-level sounds in a tube
I would like to record extremely low sound-level (at ~200-300Hz), produced by an insect which is located at the end of a plastic tube, with a very-sensitive low-noise shotgun pressure microphone (this ...
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Have mosquitoes evolved to be quieter?
I live in northern Italy and until three or four years ago I would easily hear the annoying buzzing sound mosquitoes made at night while I lay under the sheets.
But that's no longer true. Apart from ...
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How best to attach piezzo sensors to a leaf to measure insect vibratory signal?
I'd like to measure with a cheap piezoelectric disk the vibration signals sent by whiteflies when resting on leaves. These disks are usually pretty big (I have not found any less 2cm diameter) and ...
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Recording of whitefly vibrations: "piezo" versus "low-noise microphone with subtrate-air diffusion"
Whiteflies communicate before and during mating through abdomen oscillations which vibrations are believed to propagate mostly in the leaf (~100-400 Hz). They are very low-energy signals which are ...
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Loose ID on soundscape recordings from Borneo
I'm doing some outreach and wanted to show some examples of what species can be ID'd from audio recordings.
I've ID'd the Gibbon and a Bearded Pig (blue and red boxes ,respectively) + am getting some ...
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Are acoustic-based methods used in insect pest control?
While semio-chemical repellents are widespread to tackle insect pest, acoustic-based methods seem to be less commun. I only found this example where it has been used as a commercial tool by disrupting ...
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Is there any insects which produce sound with their mouth part?
Many animals produce sounds with the help of their lungs to make their vocal folds vibrate, and then use their vocal tract to amplify some frequencies.
Is there any insects which sounds are diffused ...
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Do ultrasound mosquito-repellents work?
There are many anti-mosquito devices for sell that use ultra sounds as a repellent (e.g. see here).
Is it supported by science?
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Does a highly-sensitive auditory organ necessarily imply a behavioural response to sound?
My question could be about any sensory modalities but it rose with the case of hearing in female mosquitoes. Females mosquitoes of most species does not behaviorally respond to sound stimuli (contrary ...
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Could mosquitoes be attracted to the sound of their blood host?
At long-range, female mosquitoes mostly rely on CO2 to find blood host by flying up-wind following the odor plume (ref). They are also known to have excellent auditory organs (ref1, ref2) involved in ...
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How reliable are "particle-velocity" microphones?
For studies with insects which are sensitive to air particle-velocity, so called "particle-velocity" microphone are used (e.g. here, here, here, here). However, they are not truly particle-...
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Real-time 3D tracking of flying insects using a microphone array
I'm working with noisy-flying insects and I would like to track their position with a very low latency (< 0.1s) under laboratory conditions.
There are a couple of solutions based on 2 cameras and a ...
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