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
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 Darwin, Charles
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 Weir, James
Many insects stridulate by rubbing together specially modified parts of their hard integuments.
From The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Darwin, Charles
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
Luminous Organs.—The function of the stridulating organs just described is presumably to afford means of recognition by sound.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" by Various
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 Seaman, Owen, Sir
They have long antennæ, large ovipositors, and stridulating organs at the base of the wings in the male.
From The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section F, G and H by Project Gutenberg
Whatever may be the true explanation of stridulating organs in adult beetles, sexual selection can have had nothing to do with the presence of these highly-developed larval structures.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 6 "Cockaigne" to "Columbus, Christopher" by Various
