Fig. 3: Positive phonotactic behavior in female crickets and flies depends upon song type. | Nature Communications

Fig. 3: Positive phonotactic behavior in female crickets and flies depends upon song type.

From: Responses of intended and unintended receivers to a novel sexual signal suggest clandestine communication

Fig. 3

a Playbacks of the ancestral calling song elicited greater rates of phonotactic responses by female crickets than playbacks of the derived purring song or white noise control, while female crickets also responded more positively to purring song than to white noise. Data shown here come from phonotaxis responses of crickets in both the frequency and exemplar experiments. Dotted lines indicate the proportion of crickets exhibiting positive phonotaxis averaged across populations. b Fly traps playing ancestral song caught the overwhelming majority of flies in the field, with only a single fly caught at a trap playing the purring song, and none caught at traps broadcasting white noise (open points = average number of flies/trap; whiskers = SE; gray points = raw data). Colors of bars indicate populations of origin, with sample sizes indicated below the bars (N = numbers of individual phonotaxis trials and traps deployed for crickets and flies, respectively). Source data are provided as a Source Data file.

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