stridulate

Verb

Meaning

To make a shrill, creaking noise

to make a shrill or musical sound, such as is made by the males of many insects.

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Examples

male insects such as crickets or grasshoppers stridulate Source: Internet

Once the female beetles have arrived on a suitable pine tree host, they begin to stridulate and produce aggregative pheromones to attract other unmated males and females. Source: Internet

As the males arrive, they enter the galleries that the females have tunneled, and begin to stridulate to let the females know they have arrived, and to also warn others that the female in that gallery is taken. Source: Internet

These sounds also function as tactile communication, or communication through touch, as they stridulate, or vibrate a substrate like leaves and stems. Source: Internet

They may stridulate, or vibrate the objects they are on. Source: Internet

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