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Insects-general: Renaldo and the Loaf: 1981: Experimental: The whole album, Songs for Swining Larvae, is inspired by insects. [9] There Ain't No Bugs On Me: Insects-general (Traditional folk song) (Traditional folk song) Unknown: Folk: There is a popular recording of this song by Jerry Garcia and David Grisman on the album, Not for Kids Only ...
Learned vocalizations have been identified in groups including whales, elephants, seals, and primates, however the most well-established examples of learned singing is in birds. [29] In many species, young birds learn songs from adult males of the same species, typically fathers. [30] This was first demonstrated in chaffinches (Fringilla coelabs).
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 general.
Sob: Sob quality is a soft and dark sound, associated with the sobbing cry of an adult who mourns. [ 63 ] [ 64 ] Sob quality is produced on a lowered larynx and thinned vocal folds. [ 43 ] Sob quality releases glottal hyperadduction and medial compression, lowers the larynx and releases pharyngeal constriction. [ 23 ]
Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects is a series of books produced by the Royal Entomological Society (RES). 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 "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.
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.
Adult owlflies are fast-flying, aerial predators, capturing and feeding on other insects in flight. [6] The larvae too are predatory, making owlflies important in maintaining a natural ecological balance and helping to control pest insects. [7] Adults of many New World species are most active at sunset, and can often be collected near lights.