12.17.2020

So…wait a minute…

Small, quiet crickets turn leaves into megaphones to blare their mating call

Some male crickets make their own megaphones by cutting wing-sized holes into the center of leaves. With their bodies stuck halfway through this vegetative speaker, male Oecanthus henryi crickets can more than double the volume of their calls…

…it's the quiet ones that are making all the noise?

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