All around us, insects are speaking to each other: jockeying for mates, searching for food, and trying to avoid becoming someone else's next meal. Some of this communication is easy to spot—like the ...

(THE CONVERSATION) – The Greek historian Herodotus reported over 2,000 years ago on a misguided forbidden experiment in which two children were prevented from hearing human speech so that a king could ...

A group of treehoppers sit on a plant stem in University of Missouri Professor Rex Cocroft's lab. Humans can't hear the vibrations these insects use to communicate with, but Cocroft has been able to ...

Pheromone communication in social insects : sources and secretions / Johan Billen and E. David Morgan -- Cuticle and cuticular hydrocarbons of insects : structure, function, and biochemistry / Gary J.

Papers presented at a symposium, held at the Imperial College in London Sept. 7-9, 1983, sponsored by the Royal Entomological Society of London. Opening remarks / Sir Richard Southwood -- The elements ...

Vibrational communication in insects encompasses the production, transmission and reception of substrate-borne mechanical waves during a wide array of ecological interactions. Insects generate these ...