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This is a list of songs inspired by insects. Insects in music are known from everything from classical music and opera to ragtime and pop.. Rimsky-Korsakov imitates the quick buzzing vibrato of the bumblebee in his famous "The Flight of the Bumblebee".
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Insects have appeared in music from Rimsky-Korsakov's "Flight of the Bumblebee" to such popular songs as "Blue-tailed Fly" and the folk song La Cucaracha which is about a cockroach. Insect groups mentioned include bees , ants , flies and the various singing insects such as cicadas , crickets , and beetles , while other songs refer to bugs in ...
A tymbal thrown into vibration (as when cicada is singing), more highly magnified The tymbal (or timbal ) is the corrugated exoskeletal structure used to produce sounds in insects. In male cicadas , the tymbals are membranes in the abdomen, responsible for the characteristic sound produced by the insect.
The "Spanish fly", Lytta vesicatoria, has been considered to have medicinal, aphrodisiac, and other properties. Human interactions with insects include both a wide variety of uses, whether practical such as for food, textiles, and dyestuffs, or symbolic, as in art, music, and literature, and negative interactions including damage to crops and extensive efforts to control insect pests.
Biomusic is a form of experimental music which deals with sounds created or performed by non-humans.The definition is also sometimes extended to include sounds made by humans in a directly biological way.
The aim of the Handbooks is to provide illustrated identification keys to the insects of Britain, together with concise morphological, biological and distributional information. The series also includes several Check Lists of British Insects. All books contain line drawings, with the most recent volumes including colour photographs.
Riodinids are known to make substrate borne sounds in two ways. While most singing riodinid caterpillars produce sound by scraping ribbed vibratory papillae against the rough surface of the head [1] [8] [9] [10] a few riodinids such as E. elvina, achieve the same effect by rubbing the cervical membrane (analogous to a neck) against the head.