He believes that the power of stridulation in the Clythra has not been previously observed.
Cynipidae and Tenthredinidae; on the relative size of the sexes of Aculeate Hymenoptera; on the difference between the sexes of ants and bees; on the stridulation of Trox sabulosus; on the stridulation of Mononychus pseudacori.
Heliopathes; on the stridulation of Acalles; habit of female deer at breeding time.
In the case of the Heliopathes and Oryctes there can hardly be a doubt that the males stridulate in order to call or to excite the females; but with most beetles the stridulation apparently serves both sexes as a mutual call.
Achetidae, stridulation of the; rudimentary stridulating organs in female.
Ateuchus cicatricosus; on the stridulation of Ateuchus.
It is noted for the loud chirping or stridulation of the males.
Defn: The act of producing sound, as the stridulation of insects.
He knew that the stridulation was caused by the insect before him, though he had never wondered how it was produced.
An angry, foot-long ant stood before him, its mandibles extended threateningly, while a shrill stridulation filled the air.
Heliopathes, stridulation peculiar to the male, i.
No account that I have seen of the stridulation of male insects shows that it is a challenge.
The act of producing sound, as the stridulation of insects.
In the last and third Family, namely the Acridiidae or grasshoppers, the stridulation is produced in a very different manner, and is not so shrill, according to Dr.
We had a glimpse now and then into the black depths of the forest, where all was silent except the shrill stridulation of wood-crickets.
But in this great-armed beetle it was a nodding of necessity, a doddering of desire, the drawing of the bow across the strings in a hymn of hope which had begun in past time with the first stridulation of ancient insects.
Considering that stridulation takes place about every ten seconds, I calculate that the grasshopper must require a new set of wings every ten days.
This song, so well known, which seems to have for its object to call the females, is nothing but a sort of stridulation or screeching, produced by the rubbing together of the wing cases, or elytra.
The male produces a sharp stridulation or screeching sound, by rubbing the cases of its wings--which are furnished with plates which might be compared to cymbals--one against another.
The males, as we have already said, make a shrillstridulation by rubbing their thighs over their elytra.
In this species the wing cases, or elytra, are almost obsolete, and the wings are reduced to mere arched scales, whose friction produces a stridulation or screeching noise.
Once a shrill stridulationfilled all the air before them, a monster sound compounded of innumerable clickings and high-pitched cries.
During the monsoon the silence of the night is broken only by the sound of falling raindrops, or the croaking of the frogs, the stridulation of crickets innumerable, and the owlet's feeble call.
As we have seen, the nocturnal chorus of the birds is now replaced by the croaking of frogs and the stridulation of crickets.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stridulation" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bark; call; chirp; clang; creak; crick; cry; grunt; howl; howling; note; rasp; stridulation
