Make a shrill creaking noise by rubbing together special bodily structures.
1 The crickets stridulate by rubbing together the strong nervures of the fore wings.
2 Do co-mimics also stridulate or squeak with the same wave-form?
3 The green grasshoppers and katydids stridulate by means of special organs at the base of the fore wings.
4 The only known mammal to stridulate is the streaked tenrec, a spiky hedgehog-like critter from Madagascar that rubs its quills together.
5 The Krinpit was staggering closer to them, moaning and stridulating .
6 He does not sing, he does not cry-he stridulates .
7 The males are stridulating by themselves, here and there, teasing the passing fair with their antennae.
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