| 单词 | stridulation |
| 例句 | The Wart felt a man on either side of him take his hand, as they stood in a circle, and then he noticed that the stridulation of the grasshoppers had begun again. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Most insect songs, for example in crickets and kadydids, are produced by stridulation – rubbing two body parts together. New to Nature No 9: Sinotympana incomparabilis 2010-06-05T23:05:00Z The male club-winged manakin makes these harmonic sounds through stridulation, rather like a cricket. Why It Matters Who Females Choose to Have Sex With 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z Dr Zapata described this stridulation as similar to playing a tiny violin. Jurassic cricket's song recreated 2012-02-06T23:33:59Z The stridulation or “song” in the latter is produced by friction of the hind legs against portions of the wings or wing-covers. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z The song, used by males to attract mates, is produced by rubbing two body parts together, in a process called stridulation. World's Loudest Animal Recorded 2011-07-06T15:53:00Z Burl knew that the stridulation was caused by the doubtful insect before him, though he had never wondered how it was produced. The Mad Planet 2011-03-02T03:00:25.117Z The footage is the first of a mammal communicating in this way, a technique called "stridulation". Bizarre mammals call using quills 2011-02-11T09:31:25Z In the last and third Family, namely the Acridiidæ or grasshoppers, the stridulation is produced in a very different manner, and is not so shrill, according to Dr. Scudder, as in the preceding Families. The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Vol. I 2011-01-17T03:00:49.523Z "Very luckily for us, there was a definite difference in the stridulation and bite patterns," Dr Harvey recalled. Ginger 'irresistible to beetles' 2011-01-10T00:31:01Z Often through the woods a loud, sharp, resonant stridulation is heard, sounding like the syllables “Ta, na, na,” succeeding each other with little intermission. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America Beneath that deeper thunder of the guns, the crackling, unintermittent sound of musketry affected the ear like the stridulation of giant insects. The Long Roll Animals such as crickets, beetles and vipers are known to communicate by rubbing together body parts in behaviour known as "stridulation". Bizarre mammals call using quills 2011-02-11T09:31:25Z These characters absent in the lowest classes—Brilliant colours—Mollusca—Annelids—Crustacea, secondary sexual characters strongly developed; dimorphism; colour; characters not acquired before maturity—Spiders, sexual colours of; stridulation by the males—Myriapoda. The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Vol. I 2011-01-17T03:00:49.523Z The 'stridulation,' as this form of musical production is called, in some locusts is so loud that it can be heard on a still night for a distance of a mile. Chatterbox, 1905. The efforts of the former produce a scarcely perceptible stridulation; the palpitating throat of the latter is as ineffectual; and the desired one does not come. Social Life in the Insect World As we have seen, the nocturnal chorus of the birds is now replaced by the croaking of frogs and the stridulation of crickets. A Bird Calendar for Northern India Considering that stridulation takes place about every ten seconds, I calculate that the grasshopper must require a new set of wings every ten days. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, July 21, 1920 Throughout great lengths of shore-line the tuneless stridulation of frogs, the guttural cries of water-birds and the general movement in the sedge indicated a serene content among small life. The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt No account that I have seen of the stridulation of male insects shows that it is a challenge. Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1 Everywhere butterflies fluttered, lizards basked in the sun, and the stridulation of innumerable insects vexed the ear. Lewis Rand 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. A Bird Calendar for Northern India "Grasshoppers," it says, "are specially remarkable for their saltatory powers, due to the great development of the hind legs; and also for their stridulation, which is not always an attribute of the male only." Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, July 21, 1920 The hot July air trembled agleam with shining insects, and drowsily over the hayfield, punctuated by stridulation of innumerable grasshoppers, there throbbed one sustained murmur, like the remote and mellow music of wood and strings. Children of the Mist Whence, for example, is that raucus stridulation which sets every tooth on edge and sends a rheumatic shiver up my spine? Behind the Bungalow From the Western Union desks the clicking of the throng of instruments rose into the air in an incessant staccato stridulation. The Pit The air was even richer in aroma than it had been in the morning, but its breath seemed to be part of the uncanny stridulation of the katydids. The Rise of David Levinsky 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. The Naturalist on the River Amazons In the last and third family, namely the Acridiidae or grasshoppers, the stridulation is produced in a very different manner, and according to Dr. Scudder, is not so shrill as in the preceding Families. The Descent of Man His voice becomes a mere stridulation for the stating of formula; he seems deaf to all but properly enunciated problems. The First Men in the Moon These characters are absent in the lowest classes—Brilliant colours— Mollusca—Annelids—Crustacea, secondary sexual characters strongly developed; dimorphism; colour; characters not acquired before maturity— Spiders, sexual colours of; stridulation by the males—Myriapoda. The Descent of Man Orthoptera, metamorphosis of; stridulating apparatus of; colours of; rudimentary stridulating organs in female; stridulation of the, and Homoptera, discussed. The Descent of Man Beetles, size of the cerebral ganglia in; dilatation of the foretarsi in male; blind; stridulation of. The Descent of Man These characters absent in the lowest classes—Brilliant colours—Mollusca —Annelids—Crustacea, secondary sexual characters strongly developed; dimorphism; colour; characters not acquired before maturity—Spiders, sexual colours of; stridulation by the males—Myriapoda. The Descent of Man Insects, relative size of the cerebral ganglia in; male, appearance of, before the females; pursuit of female, by the males; period of development of sexual characters in; secondary sexual characters of; kept in cages; stridulation. The Descent of Man Cricket, field-, stridulation of the; pugnacity of male. The Descent of Man |
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