{"id":580,"date":"2009-01-15T22:34:26","date_gmt":"2009-01-16T05:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/2009\/01\/15\/versatile-aggressive-mimicry-of-cicadas-by-an-australian-predatory-katydid\/"},"modified":"2013-02-11T18:52:38","modified_gmt":"2013-02-12T01:52:38","slug":"versatile-aggressive-mimicry-of-cicadas-by-an-australian-predatory-katydid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/versatile-aggressive-mimicry-of-cicadas-by-an-australian-predatory-katydid\/","title":{"rendered":"Versatile Aggressive Mimicry of Cicadas by an Australian Predatory Katydid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Marshall and Kathy Hill have discovered that a particular species of katydid mimics the wing-flick of female cicadas to lure male cicadas to their certain doom. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nWe have found that predatory Chlorobalius leucoviridis katydids (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) can attract male cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) by imitating the species-specific wing-flick replies of sexually receptive female cicadas. This aggressive mimicry is accomplished both acoustically, with tegminal clicks, and visually, with synchronized body jerks. Remarkably, the katydids respond effectively to a variety of complex, species-specific Cicadettini songs, including songs of many cicada species that the predator has never encountered.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the entire research article: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plosone.org\/article\/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0004185\">Versatile Aggressive Mimicry of Cicadas by an Australian Predatory Katydid<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Marshall and Kathy Hill have discovered that a particular species of katydid mimics the wing-flick of female cicadas to lure male cicadas to their certain doom. We have found that predatory Chlorobalius leucoviridis katydids (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) can attract male cicadas (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) by imitating the species-specific wing-flick replies of sexually receptive female cicadas. This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,189,188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia","category-david-marshall","category-kathy-hill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}