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stridulation
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stridulation [‚strij·ə′lā·shən]
(invertebrate zoology)
Creaking and other audible sounds made by certain insects, produced by rubbing various parts of the body together.
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richteri stridulate from a variety of different cues: nest disturbance, discovery of a new food source, physical restraint, and interactions with ants of intra or interspecific colonies.
Zoology and Entomology by Journal of the Mississippi Academy of Sciences
Ants stridulate with the hindmost body section, the gaster, explains systematist Philip Ward at the University of California, Davis.
When Ants Squeak by MILIUS, SUSAN / Science News
But in the honest-to-goodness, bug-eat-bug world -- where the element of surprise can make all the difference between eating or starving -- "it would be kind of maladaptive to stridulate before they pounce.
Education by exaggeration: one professor's offbeat answer to ... by Weiss, Rick / Science News
 
 
 
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