stridulate

Like crickets and katydids, they can stridulate by rubbing its body parts together to attract a mate or ward off potential predators.

From Scientific American ● Apr. 26, 2013

I then removed the antennæ of the male, and again made the female stridulate; the male heard her, and at once crawled toward her, although his antennæ were entirely removed.

From The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals by James Weir

Beetles stridulate under various emotions, in the same manner as birds use their voices for many purposes besides singing to their mates.

From The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin

Many grasshoppers stridulate by rubbing the hind legs across strong nervures on the fore wings.

From The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section S by Project Gutenberg

Many insects stridulate by rubbing together specially modified parts of their hard integuments.

From The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

Decrepit, senile, and miserable, Tithonus eventually shrank into a cicada who stridulated ceaselessly, calling out for release.

From The New Yorker ● Mar. 27, 2017

The insects buzzed, whined, hummed, stridulated and droned as the air grew warmer in the sunset.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

From Vera Cruz to Jalapa, more than 100 miles, were "hordes" of grasshoppers, gaily munching crops, stopping trains and stridulating with much gusto.

From Time Magazine Archive

Insects and some few spiders are the lowest animals which voluntarily produce any sound; and this is generally effected by the aid of beautifully constructed stridulating organs, which are often confined to the males.

From The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin

Of this kind is a stridulating or musical apparatus like that of the cricket in an insect otherwise allied to the Neuroptera.

From The Student's Elements of Geology by Sir Charles Lyell

Scudder has described an annectant insect in Devonian strata, furnished with a stridulating apparatus.

From More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 by Sir Francis Darwin

I mean, why should he wave his back legs about when he is stridulating?

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, July 21, 1920 by Sir Owen Seaman