stridulate
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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
The insects which employ the fourth method also stridulate during night.
From The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 6 August 1906 by Various
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
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
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
We thus see that in the different coleopterous families the stridulating organs are wonderfully diversified in position, but not much in structure.
From The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin
These stridulating organs were mentioned by C. Darwin as probable examples of the action of sexual selection; they are, however, frequently present in both sexes, and in some families also in the larvae.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" by Various
In the females, however, of all three species of Oryctes, a slight grating or stridulating sound is produced, when the abdomen of a softened specimen is pushed backwards and forwards.
From The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin
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