In 1991, cricket numbers crashed as parasitoid flies (Ormia ochracea) located male calling crickets by sound and made them into live incubators ... dominated by males with a wing mutation that ...
vicinus) end their flights at conspecific calling songs. Routine monitoring of mole cricket flights was accomplished using timer-operated electronic sound synthesizers over 1.5 m diameter catching ...
Research from St. Olaf College and the University of Denver, published in Current Biology, found that a parasitic fly in Hawaii has evolved to eavesdrop on the mating calls of Pacific field crickets.