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Pacific crickets on Moloka’i are singing a new tune

Crickets rapidly evolve new mating call to evade their parasites

29 October 2018

In Hawaii, parasitic flies target singing crickets, forcing them to rapidly evolve to escape detection. Now some males have developed a special, seductive purr

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