Vibrational Signaling

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Abstract

Vibrational communication is widespread in insects, yet scientists are only beginning to appreciate the importance and complexity of this communication channel. Substrate vibrations are widely available to insects living on plants, sand, soil, leaf litter, or fabricated materials such as beehives, termite mounds, or silk. Sources of vibrations important to insects may be abiotic (e.g., wind, rain) or biotic (e.g., signals or cues arising from conspecifics, predators, and even plants). This chapter focuses primarily on insects and specifically on adults that exploit plant-borne vibrations, reflecting most of the research to date. Some consideration is paid to other invertebrates such as spiders and scorpions, as well as juvenile stages such as eggs, larvae, and pupae. Topics covered include the diversity of taxa exploiting substrate-borne vibrations, the complexity of their vibratory environments, and the multitude of ways that vibrations are generated and used in social communication, finding food, avoiding predators, and monitoring the environment. Vibratory sense organs, including subgenual organs, lyriform organs, and Johnston’s organs and their constituent mechanosensilla are described. The vibratory landscape of insects and other invertebrates is poorly documented for most taxa, and all lines of investigation, from “identifying the players” to understanding how complex vibratory signals are detected and processed to recognize and localize sources, are unchartered territories ripe for further investigation.

Keywords

Behavior Chordotonal organs Communication Insect Mechanoreception Scolopidia Sensory Subgenual organ Substrate vibration Vibration signals 
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Acknowledgments

I thank Cindy Shaheen, Glenn Morris, Rex Cocroft, and Freidrich Barth for contributing materials and advice and Karen Wang and Violet Yacksmith for contributing to the artwork.

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