Entries tagged with “crickets” from Bugs in the News
We all know the tale of the boy that cried wolf; it was told to me by my parents the first time I faked a stomach ache to avoid a test at school. Well, in a recent paper by Jonathan Storm and Steven Lima, it seems that cricket moms-to-be are "telling" their offspring the ways to avoid predation by wolf spiders. Moms who are exposed to non-deadly attacks from spiders have offspring that are born avoiding spider silk, feces and stay hidden longer than offspring from cricket moms not exposed to any such non-lethal spider attacks. Although a mechanism for this transgenerational informational exchange is unclear, the authors believe it must be hormonally controlled - no chirping necessary.
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