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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.
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).
Insect order Composer Performing artist Date Type of music Notes BUGZ! Insects-general Mina Bloom & Mark Generous Mina Bloom & Doctor Generous 2023 Electronic music: A pro-bug song about how important they are to humans [3] Six-Limbed Drummer Hemiptera: David de la Haye Adam Stapleford 2022 Free Jazz /Improv: Drummer improvising with the sound ...
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.
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.
Katter (Britt McKillip; singing Frances) [23] is a pretty caterpillar who later transforms into a butterfly. She is soft-spoken and shy, but is very friendly with everyone. She is best friends with Morgs and Millie. Morgs (David Paul Grove; singing James Corden) [24] is a very nervous and self-conscious stick bug. He has trouble standing up for ...
Hormones also have activational effects on singing and the song nuclei in adult birds. In canaries ( Serinus canaria ), females normally sing less often and with less complexity than males. However, when adult females are given androgen injections, their singing will increase to an almost male-like frequency. [ 80 ]
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.