Moth hearing and sound communication

Nakano, Ryo; Takanashi, Takuma; Surlykke, Annemarie

doi:10.1007/s00359-014-0945-8

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“…Collective materials Defense swarming Japanese honeybees [574] Material-like swarm Honeybees [573] Magnetic orientation Termites [631] Tree nesting Weaver ants [653] Water active properties Designed wettability Desert beetle [161] Hydrophobic surface Planthopper, [155] mosquitos, [157] green bottle fly [160] Thin flexible membranes Locomotion Locomotive method Mayflies [654] Wing design Bumblebees, [102][103][104][105] dragonflies [94,106,107,112] Mechanosensation Subgenual organs Ground wetas [248,249] Tympanum Cicadas [235] Sound production Tymbal sound production Tiger moths, [269] cicadas [254,266] Thermoregulation Thermosensing Dark-pigmented butterflies [393,655] Water active properties Hydrophobic surface Mosquitos [178] Water-active behavior Termites [177,656] Chemical/other Chemical sensing and defense…”

Section: Physical Adhesive Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…[254,[266][267][268] Tiger-moth tymbals are modified regions of the thorax that produce high-frequency, tuneable clicks in the 40-80 kHz range. [269] Sounds from these clicks, unlike cicada songs, serve a dual purpose and are used both as mating signals and in acoustic aposematism against bats. The moths are advertising to bats that they are toxic and the sounds "jam" the sonar of motheating bats to deter them.…”

Section: Sound Production In Insectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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It's Not a Bug, It's a Feature: Functional Materials in Insects

2018

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Over the course of their wildly successful proliferation across the earth, the insects as a taxon have evolved enviable adaptations to their diverse habitats, which include adhesives, locomotor systems, hydrophobic surfaces, and sensors and actuators that transduce mechanical, acoustic, optical, thermal, and chemical signals. Insect‐inspired designs currently appear in a range of contexts, including antireflective coatings, optical displays, and computing algorithms. However, as over one million distinct and highly specialized species of insects have colonized nearly all habitable regions on the planet, they still provide a largely untapped pool of unique problem‐solving strategies. With the intent of providing materials scientists and engineers with a muse for the next generation of bioinspired materials, here, a selection of some of the most spectacular adaptations that insects have evolved is assembled and organized by function. The insects presented display dazzling optical properties as a result of natural photonic crystals, precise hierarchical patterns that span length scales from nanometers to millimeters, and formidable defense mechanisms that deploy an arsenal of chemical weaponry. Successful mimicry of these adaptations may facilitate technological solutions to as wide a range of problems as they solve in the insects that originated them.

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Section: Physical Adhesive Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Sound Production In Insectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

It's Not a Bug, It's a Feature: Functional Materials in Insects

2018

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“…The use of calling songs by moths has been confirmed in only a few species (Conner, 1999;Greenfield, 2014), but it has been increasingly reported that moths communicate acoustically with male courtship songs (Nakano et al, 2015). Male moths produce courtship songs after they have approached close to (within a few centimeters of) a female that has released sex pheromones to attract males from a long distance.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Loudness–Duration Tradeoff in Ultrasonic Courtship Songs of Moths

Nakano

Nagamine

2019

Front. Ecol. Evol.

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Moths have evolved auditory channels under predation pressure from insectivorous bats that emit ultrasonic pulses for capturing prey, including moths. Tympanate moths perform evasive behavior in response to echolocation calls of bats, but they also utilize ultrasonic signals mostly generated by males close to an intended female mate in the context of courtship. Unlike calling songs used to advertise the presence and sexual attractiveness of the signaler, courtship songs need not always be acoustically conspicuous. Male courtship songs are predominantly soft but sufficient for detection by a nearby potential mate. Quiet courtship songs are thought to effectively avoid being eavesdropped by gleaning bats, acoustic parasitoids, and conspecific competitors, i.e., rival males. However, males of some moth species generate loud courtship songs. In the present study, the duration of courtship song, in addition to the sound level of the song was predicted to affect the likelihood of being perceived by eavesdroppers. Loud and lengthy courtship songs, which are easily exploited by eavesdroppers, would be expected to rarely evolve, because a female receiver close to a male emitting a conspicuous song would also be exposed to strong predation pressure. This study explored the relationship between the peak sound level and the duration of single song bouts in 26 moth species from the following families: Noctuidae, Erebidae, Crambidae, Pyralidae, and Geometridae. The softest and loudest songs with mean peak sound levels of 64 and 129 dB peSPL had mean durations of 1,900 and 312 ms, respectively, whereas the shortest and longest songs with mean durations of 110 and 8,839 ms had mean peak sound levels of 102 and 74 dB peSPL, respectively. The peak sound level and duration of courtship song exhibited a significant negative relationship across species. Although the energetic cost of producing song and the size of the sound-producing organ might also affect the relationship, the data support the conclusion that acoustic moths have adaptively evolved ultrasonic courtship songs with properties between "soft-and-long" and "loud-and-short" to avoid eavesdroppers.

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“…The hearing organ of flies for example, the Johnston's organ, which is located within the antennae (Child, 1894;Eggers, 1924) detects particle velocity leading to a high resolution of the temporal pattern of a sound stimulus (for review see Albert & G€ opfert, 2015). Another mechanism to perceive temporal patterns is achieved by the tympanal membranes of notodontid moths (for review see Nakano, Takanashi, & Surlykke, 2015). The moths' organs often possess only a single receptor cell that is tuned to bat echolocation calls (Surlykke, 1984;Fullard, 1984Fullard, , 1987 with the tuning based on the mechanical resonance of the tympanal membrane.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Morphological basis for a tonotopic design of an insect ear

Hummel

Kössl

Nowotny

2017

J of Comparative Neurology

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The tonotopically organized hearing organs of bushcrickets provide the opportunity for a detailed correlation of morphological and structural properties within hearing organs that are needed to establish tonotopic gradients. In the present study of a tonotopic insect hearing organ, we combine mechanical measurements of sound-induced hearing organ motion and detailed anatomical investigations to explore the anatomical basis of tonotopy. We compare mechanical data of frequency responses along the auditory organ to several anatomical parameters. Low frequency responses are related to larger organ and cap cell size in the proximal part of the hearing organ while in the distal part of the organ, small organ and cap cell size is related to high-frequency representation. However, the correlation between organ and cap cell size with continuous frequency representation along the organ is not very tight. Instead, the height of the organ and the corresponding length of the sensory dendrites are best correlated to tonotopic frequency representation. The sensory dendrite contains a ciliary root with a pronounced cross-banding of electron-dense material that should be important for the stiffness of the dendrite. The geometry of surrounding structures like the hemolymph channel and the acoustic trachea as well as the extension of the tectorial membrane are not correlated to the tonotopy. We provide evidence that tonotopy in the bushcricket hearing organ may depend on the size of ciliary structures. In particular, the ciliary root of the sensory cells is a likely cellular basis of tonotopy.

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Moth hearing and sound communication

Cited by 36 publications

References 69 publications

It's Not a Bug, It's a Feature: Functional Materials in Insects

It's Not a Bug, It's a Feature: Functional Materials in Insects

Loudness–Duration Tradeoff in Ultrasonic Courtship Songs of Moths

Morphological basis for a tonotopic design of an insect ear

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