Insect bioacoustics

Glenn K. Morris

Professor of Zoology (emeritus)

University of Toronto

(gmorris@utm.utoronto.ca)

 

Graduate student

Stephanie Hill

 

Postdoctoral Fellow

Dr. Fernando Montealegre-Z

Text Box: This insect's carrier is in the high ultrasonic:70-90 kHz

Myopophyllum speciosum Beier from the montane rainforest of Ecuador
 

 

Published papers:

Morris, G.K., Mason, A.C., Wall, P., Belwood, J.J. 1994. High ultrasonic and tremulation signals in neotropical katydids (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae). Journal of Zoological Society, London. 233: 129-163.

Montealegre, F.Z. and Morris, G.K. 1999. Songs and systematics of some Tettigoniidae from Colombia and Ecuador I. Pseudophyllinae (Orthoptera). Journal of Orthoptera Research 8: 163-236.

Morris, G.K. et al. 2002. Calling song function in male haglids (Orthoptera: Haglidae, Cyphoderris. Canadian Journal of Zoology 80: 271-285.

     Many male insects make sounds in the context of calling mates or rivalry to gain access to mates. And sounds are also made as part of defensive displays.  We study the function of such sound signals, in katydids crickets and mantids.

 

 

 Metrioptera sphagnorum on black spruce trunk.