| The sounds of crickets courting and flies flying familiar to many of us, but have you heard a rice weevil larva eating inside a wheat kernel, a termite cutting a piece of wood, or a grub chewing on a root? Modern insect detection and control technology makes use of these subtle signals, sampled below. |
| Most of the sound files on this page were selected from noise-free sections of recorded signal, but you can hear some typical background noises mixed with insect sounds at I below. The insect sounds have higher frequencies and shorter durations that make them relatively easy to separate from background. |
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Below: Cornelius Dunmore and Katrina Hutchinson performing digital signal analysis of stored product insect pest sounds. 
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A.
Stored Product Insect movement and feeding sounds recorded for insect
detection
and monitoring studies:
(the
sound quality differences that you hear are caused by differences in
the
spectral ranges of the sensors).
A.1.B. Movement and feeding sounds of soil invertebrates:
A.2.
A.3.
A.4.
A.5.
A.6.
A.7.
[172 kB].
. [556 kB]
Mankin, R. W.,
S. L. Lapointe,
and R. L. Franqui. 2001. Acoustic surveying of
subterranean
insect populations in citrus groves. J. Econ. Entomol: 94:
94:853-859.
[2209 kB]
Mankin, R. W.,
Crocker,
R. L., Flanders, K. L., and Shapiro, J. P. 1998.
Acoustic
detection and identification of insects in soil. In: P. K.
Kuhl and L. A. Crum, [eds.], Proceedings of the 16th International
Congress
of Acoustics and the 135th Annual Meeting of the Acoustical Society of
America, pp. 685-686. 1998.
[192 kB]
For #'s B.1-3 see also: Web
Page by Phil Stansly, Biology
of Diaprepes abbreviatus
B.1. Diaprepes
abbreviatus larvae feeding on citrus stock in a 1-gallon pot
[1,465 kB, 30 s]
B.2. Diaprepes
abbreviatus larvae feeding on orange tree roots in a grove
[641
kB, 12.8 s]
B.3. Recording
under different orange tree in same grove [489 kB,
9.8
s]
Phyllophaga
(white grubs) recorded by Jamee
Brandhorst-Hubbard Phyllophaga
(white grubs) recorded by Minling Zhang w/ soil microphone
.
B.4.c.and
B.4.d.
Two simultaneous recordings by Minling Zhang of a series
of (6) sound pulses recorded from microphones inserted into soil near a
white grub
(Phyllophaga). The series begins at ca. 8.8 s after
the beginning of each recording
and lasts for 1.5 s. Other sounds also are present in the
recordings. [769 kB, 16 s].
Additional information
in Zhang et al. (2003)
B.5. Euzophera
magnolialis Capps recorded in soil under magnolia tree.
Polyphylla spp. ( Possibly P. barbata). Unverified
recordings
in habitat of rare June beetle,
Scapteriscus
vicinus Mole cricket
Scapteriscus
vicinus Mole cricket scraping sounds
Lumbricidae
spp. (earthworms) recorded in soil from a forage grass fiel
Otiorhynchus
sulcatus (black vine weevil) larvae in a 1-gallon pot containing a
yew tree,
Note: For information about dung beetles, see: Vulinec, K. 2000. Dung beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae), monkeys, and conservation in amazonia. Fla. Entomol. 83:229-241.
Geotrupes
egeriei Germar provided by Kevi Vulinec, University of Florida.
[505
kB, 10.8 s]
Peltotrupes profundus Howden provided by Kevi Vulinec, University
of
Florida [353 kB, 8 s]
[146 kB]
D.1. Reticulitermes
virginicus (300 workers feeding on 2" x 4" x 8' plank,
recorded
by Donovan Filkins) [489 kB, 9.8 sec].
D.2. Reticulitermes
flavipes (Eastern subterranean termite)
Recordings by John Green from an accelerometer placed into a laboratory
colony of 2000
Reticulitermes spp. headbanging recorded by John Rodgers
Coptotermes
formosanus (Formosan termites)
Drywood termites (Isoptera: Kalotermitidae)
Compare with a second recording
from the same tree by John Rodgers using
an AED-2000 insect detection
system, filtering out low-frequency noise. [227 kB, 10 s]. Drepanotermes termite head-banging with interspersed (higher frequency) ticks produced by attacking Camponotus denticulatus ants, Anoplophora
glabripennis (Asian longhorned beetle) larva
Cephus
cinctus (wheat stem sawfly) larva (0.014 g, 29-d-old
F.1a.[Note: There is a female mosquito buzzing in the foreground, and the higher-pitched sound of the male swarm is in the background.]
Information about Aedes taeniorynchus swarms is given in: Mankin (1994)
Aedes albopictus
(Asian tiger mosquito) female in flight. Note that the wingbeat
frequency is much lower than for the smaller male in F.1.c. Aedes albopictus (Asian tiger mosquito) male in flight. Anastrepha
suspensa (Caribbean fruit fly) adult male calling song recorded
with
Bruel and Kjaer microphone. [489 kb, 9.8 s] Bactrocera tyroni (Queensland fruit fly) adult male calling song recorded with Phil Taylor at Macquarie University, Sydney Australia [1694 kB, 19.6 s]
[164 kB]
See also Mankin et al. (1996)
[1,174 kB]Ceratitis
capitata (Mediterranean fruit fly) adult male calling song
Mankin et al. (2004).Ceratitis
capitata (Mediterranean fruit fly) adult male courtship song
Ceratitis
capitata (Mediterranean fruit fly) adult male flight near microphone (Bruel and Kjaer)Ceratitis
capitata (Mediterranean fruit fly) adult female flight near microphone (Bruel and Kjaer) Cotesia marginiventris (braconid parasitoid) male calling song (Courtesy of John Sivinski) [1672 kB, 53 s]Heliconius
cydno alithea (Butterfly) adult female producing a series of wing clicks
[161
kB, 3 s].
(Hay-Roe
and Mankin, 2004). Another series of wing clicks
from another adult H. cydno. [321kB, kB, 6s]Adult
male near pheromone source [1664 kb, 33.28 sec]
[173 kB] Adult
male without pheromone stimulation [1120 kb, 22.4 s]G.1a.recorded by James Anderson with Bruel and Kjaer microphone in a small colony of Solenopsis invicta. (Fire ants courtesy of Lloyd Davis).
G.1b.H. Crickets, katydids, and cicadas:
G.2.(See F.1 and http://cmave.usda.ufl.edu/~ifahi/sdporter.html). (Phorid flies courtesy of Sanford Porter and Lloyd Davis).G.3.
H.1. Tom Walker's "Singing Insects" Web SiteI. Examples to distinguish insect sounds from background noise:
H.2. Kazuyuki Hashimoto's "Insect Sound World" Web Site
H.3. Magicicada Web Site
I.1.This lively site contained 6 tenebrionids, 2 millipedes, 2 earthworms, 1 wireworm, 1 armyworm, a mature cydnid, and an immature cydnid. (Recorded by Jamie Brandhorst-Hubbard with a soil microphone). For reference, seeI.2.
I.3.I.4.(For reference see black vine weevil sounds).
I.5.
I.6.recorded from an accelerometer on a nail inserted into a field at Oregon State University. (see I.3). [733 kB, 15 s]I.7.recorded from an accelerometer on nail inside a pot containing black vine weevil larvae. (see I.3). [733 kB, 15 s]
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