A male cricket "sings" by raising his wing covers (tegmina) above the body and rubbing their bases against each other.

I also liked to catch crickets, but only male crickets, which we used in cricket fighting competitions.

Diagram A shows the male cricket with its wings raised for the purpose of chirping.

However, the male cricket's song play an important role in species identification.

Later he put a male cricket behind a microphone and female crickets in front of a loudspeaker.

Consider, for instance, the song of the male cricket: do the males learn the song by listening to other males?

The crucial experiment is to rear male crickets without allowing them to hear the song of other crickets.

The fly uses her "ears" to detect the call of her host, a male cricket.

In the wild, male crickets do not tolerate one another and will fight until there is a winner.