Bat avoidance in non-aerial insects: The silence response of signaling males in an acoustic moth

Ethology

Volumn 109, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 427-442

  Greenfield, Michael D ^a   Baker, Michelle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; BAT; BIOACOUSTICS; CALLING BEHAVIOR; MOTH; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION;

HEXAPODA; INSECTA; LEPIDOPTERA; PYRALIDAE;

EID: 0037911567     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1439-0310.2003.00886.x     Document Type: Article

References (41)

1. Acharya, L. & McNeil, J. N. 1998: Predation risk and mating behavior: the responses of moths to bat-like ultrasound. Behav. Ecol. 9, 552-558.
2. Arlettaz, R., Jones, G. & Racey, P. A. 2001: Effect of acoustic clutter on prey detection by bats. Nature 414, 742-745.
3. Bailey, W. J. & Haythornthwaite, S. 1998: Risks of calling by the field cricket Teleogryllus oceanicus: potential predation by Australian long-eared bats. J. Zool., Lond. 244, 505-513.
4. Faure, P. A., Fullard, J. H. & Barclay, R. M. R. 1990: The response of tympanate moths to the echolocation calls of a substrate gleaning bat, Myotis evotis. J. Comp. Physiol. A 166, 843-849.
5. Faure, P. A., Fullard, J. H. & Dawson, J. W. 1993: The gleaning attacks of the northern long-eared bat, Myotis septentrionalis, are relatively inaudible to moths. J. Exp. Biol. 178, 173-189.
6. Faure, P. A. & Hoy R. R. 2000: The sounds of silence: cessation of singing and song pausing are ultrasound-induced acoustic startle behaviors in the katydid Neoconocephalus ensiger (Orthoptera; Tettigoniidae). J. Comp. Physiol. A 186, 129-142.
7. Fletcher, N. H. 1992: Acoustic Systems in Biology. Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford.
8. Fullard, J. H. 1990: The sensory ecology of moths and bats: global lessons in staying alive. In: Insect Defenses (Evans, D. L. & Schmidt, J. O., eds). SUNY Press, New York, pp. 203-272.
9. Fullard, J. H. 1994: Auditory changes in noctuid moths endemic to a bat-free habitat. J. Evol. Biol. 7, 435-445.
10. Fullard, J. H., Dawson, J. W., Otero, L. D. & Surlykke, A. 1997: Bat-deafness in dayflying moths (Lepidoptera: Notodontidae: Dioptinae). J. Comp. Physiol. A 181, 477-483.
11. Green, S. & Marler, P. M. 1979: The analysis of animal communication. In: Handbook of Behavioral Neurobiology, Vol. 3. Social Behavior and Communication (Marler, P. & Vandebergh, J. G., eds). Plenum Press, New York, pp. 73-158.
12. Greenfield, M. D. 2002: Signalers and Receivers: Mechanisms and Evolution of Arthropod Communication. Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford.
13. Greenfield, M. D. & Coffelt, J. A. 1983: Reproductive behavior of the lesser waxmoth, Achroia grisella (Pyralidae: Galleriinae): signaling, pair formation, male interactions, and mate guarding. Behaviour 84, 287-315.
14. Greenfield, M. D. & Weber, T. 2000; Evolution of ultrasonic signalling in wax moths: discrimination of ultrasonic mating calls from bat echolocation signals and the exploitation of an anti-predator receiver bias by sexual advertisement. Ethol. Ecol. Evol. 12, 259-279.
15. von Helversen, D. & von Helversen, O. 1995: Acoustic pattern recognition and orientation in orthopteran insects: parallel or serial processing? J. Comp. Physiol. A 177, 767-774.
16. Hoy, R. R. 1992: The evolution of hearing in insects as an adaptation to predation from bats. In: The Evolutionary Biology of Hearing (Webster, D. B., Fay, R. R. & Popper, A. N., eds). Springer-Verlag, New York, pp. 115-129.
17. Jang, Y. & Greenfield, M. D. 1996: Ultrasonic communication and sexual selection in wax moths: female choice based on energy and asynchrony of male signals. Anim. Behav. 51, 1095-1106.
18. Jang, Y. & Greenfield, M. D. 1998: Absolute versus relative measurements of sexual selection: assessing the contributions of ultrasonic signal characters to mate attraction in lesser wax moths, Achroia grisella (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae). Evolution 52, 1383-1393.
19. Jia, F. -Y., Greenfield, M. D. & Collins, R. D. 2001: Ultrasonic signal competition among wax moths. J. Insect Behav. 14, 19-34.
20. Jones, G., Barabas, A., Elliott, W. & Parsons, S. 2002: Female greater wax moths reduce exual display behavior in relation to the potential risk of predation by echolocating bats. Behav. Ecol. 13, 375-380.
21. Künike G. 1930: Zur biologie der kleinen wachsmotte, Achroia grisella Fabr. Z. Angew. Entomol. 16, 304-356.
22. Knopek, L. & von Hintze-Podufal, C. 1986: On the morphology of the abdominal tympanic organ of the little wax moth Achroia grisella (Fbr.). Zool. Jahr. Abt. Anat. Ontog. Tiere 114, 83-93.
23. Miller, L. A. & Treat, A. E. 1993: Field recordings of echolocation and social signals from the gleaning bat Myotis septentrionalis. Bioacoustics 5, 67-87.
24. Neuweiler, G. 2000: The Biology of Bats. Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford.
25. Norman, A. P., Jones, G. & Arlettaz, R. 1999: Noctuid moths show neural and behavioural responses to sounds made by some bat-marking rings. Anim. Behav. 57, 829-835.
26. Pollack, G. S. 1998: Neural processing of acoustic signals. In: Handbook of Auditory Research, Vol. 10, Comparative Hearing: Insects (Hoy, R. R., Popper, A. N. & Fay, R. R., eds). Springer-Verlag, New York, pp. 139-196.
27. Rodriguez, S. R. 2002: Functional design in the communication of an ultrasonic moth. PhD Thesis. Univ. of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas.
28. Roeder, K. D. 1967: Nerve Cells and Insect Behavior. Harvard Univ. Press, Cambridge.
29. Rydell, J., Skals, N., Surlykke, A. & Svensson, M. 1997: Hearing and bat defence in geometrid winter moths. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 264, 83-88.
30. Schulze, W. & Schul, J. 2001: Ultrasound avoidance behaviour in the bushcricket Tettigonia viridissima (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae). J. Exp. Biol. 204, 733-740.
31. Spangler, H. G., Greenfield, M. D. & Takessian, A. 1984: Ultrasonic mate calling in the lesser wax moth. Physiol. Entomol. 9, 87-95.
32. Spangler, H. G. & Takessian, A. 1983: Sound perception by two species of wax moths (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae). Ann. Entomol. Soc. Am. 76, 94-97.
33. Spangler, H. G. 1984: Silence as a defence against predatory bats in two species of calling insect. Southwest. Nat. 29, 481-488.
34. Surlykke, A., Skals, N., Rydell, J. & Svensson, M. 1998: Sonic hearing in a diurnal geometrid moth, Archiearis parthenias, temporally isolated from bats. Naturwissenschaften 85, 36-37.
35. Surlykke, A., Filskov, M., Fullard, J. H. & Forrest, E. 1999: Auditory relationships to size in noctuid moths: bigger is better. Naturwissenschaften 86, 238-241.
36. Waters, D. A. & Jones, G. 1995: Echolocation call structure and intensity in five species of insectivorous bats. J. Exp. Biol. 198, 475-489.
37. Waters, D. A. & Jones, G. 1996: The peripheral auditory characteristics of noctuid moths: responses to the search-phase echolocation calls of bats. J. Exp. Biol. 199, 847-856.
38. Werner, T. K. 1981: Responses of nonflying moths to ultrasound: the threat of gleaning bats. Can. J. Zool. 59, 525-529.
39. Wyttenbach, R. A., May, M. L. & Hoy, R. R. 1996: Categorical perception of sound frequency by crickets. Science 273, 1542-1544.
40. Yack, J. E. & Fullard, J. H. 2000: Ultrasonic hearing in nocturnal butterflies. Nature 403, 265-266.
41. Yager, D. D. 1999: Structure, development, and evolution of insect auditory systems. Microscop. Res. Tech. 47, 380-400.