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
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
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 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
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
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
Yet, as I have said, if a public speaker may fidget with his back legs while he is stridulating, why not a public grasshopper?
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, July 21, 1920 by Sir Owen Seaman
Mr Scudder believed he had obtained a specimen of Orthoptera in which a stridulating organ was present.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 3 "Destructors" to "Diameter" by Various
