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 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
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
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
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
This view is not rendered improbable from beetles stridulating under various emotions; we know that birds use their voices for many purposes besides singing to their mates.
From The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Vol. I by Charles Darwin
In the females, however, of all three species of Oryctes, when the abdomen of a softened specimen is pushed backwards and forwards, a slight grating or stridulating sound can be produced.
From The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Vol. I by Charles Darwin
This naturalist has lately found a fossil insect in the Devonian formation of New Brunswick, which is furnished with "the well-known tympanum or stridulating apparatus of the male Locustidae."
From The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin
In two families of the Homoptera the males alone possess, in an efficient state, organs which may be called vocal; and in three families of the Orthoptera the males alone possess stridulating organs.
From The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Vol. I by Charles Darwin
