Female house crickets, Acheta domesticus, prefer the chirps of large males.

Factors Affecting Phonotaxis in Male House Crickets, Acheta domesticus

This research addresses some of the possible factors that affect male Acheta domesticus phonotactic responses to calls of males of the same species. The study examines cricket age and social interaction with females as possible factors affecting this behavior. Through Friedman rank test analysis, the study attempts to demonstrate a link between these factors and the responsiveness of the male c...

Heritable variation in the timing of spermatophore removal, a mechanism of post-copulatory female choice in crickets.

Female crickets can exert post-copulatory mating preferences by prematurely removing a male's spermatophore after copulation, which terminates sperm transfer. Although most models of sexual selection assume that female mating preferences are heritable, there has been little work addressing genetic variation underlying post-copulatory mate choice. We used a paternal half-sib design, in which dif...

The effects of female cricket pheromones on the aggression of male Acheta domesticus crickets

Model for Use in Mass - Production of Acheta domesticus ( Orthoptera : Gryllidae ) as Food

e p,od,,"uJ,, EiSt"iilx"i;'"'Jil;L1itl111l]3?11., .n" harvest or a qredetermined numbei of eggs of house cricket, Acheta domesticus (L.), per day by regulating the numbers and ages of adults in the breeding colony. With a discard age of 24 d, the production model predicted a sustainable harvest of -4,000 (4,440) and 6,000 (6,660) crickets per day when four or six pairs, respectively, of newly e...

Genetic association between male attractiveness and female differential allocation.

Differential allocation of reproductive effort towards offspring of attractive mates is a form of post-copulatory mate choice. Although differential allocation has been demonstrated in many taxa, its evolutionary implications have received little attention. Theory predicts that mate choice will lead to a positive genetic correlation between female preference and male attractiveness. This predic...