Abstract:
This
study evaluates the factors that may potentially affect the courtship songs of Gryllus bimaculatus,
(including: wing morphology, male body size and the male’s current nutritional condition)
and whether female crickets assess male courtship song.
Description:
This paper was initially
delivered at the Annual
Congress of the Biological
Sciences Division of the
South African Academy for
Science and Art, ARC-Plant
Protection Research Institute,
Roodeplaat, Pretoria, South
Africa on 01 October 2010.
