A shot in the dark: the silent quest of a free-flying phonotactic fly (Publications)
To reproduce, females of the parasitoid fly Ormia ochracea detect and localise a calling male cricket upon which they deposit their endoparasitic larvae. Calling male crickets are therefore subject to
Death comes suddenly to the unprepared: singing crickets, call fragmentation, and parasitoid flies (Publications)
Male field crickets are subject to a delicate dilemma because their songs simultaneously attract mates and acoustic predators. It has been suggested that in response, crickets have modified various te