Field Cricket Spacing, and the Phonotaxis of Crickets and Parasitoid Flies to Clumped and Isolated Cricket Songs

Nearest neighbor analyses of the field crickets Gryllus integer, G. veletis , and Teleogryllus oceanicus demonstrated that calling ♂♂ were aggregated. Broadcasts of conspecific song to calling ♂♂ indicated that attraction of neighboring ♂♂ maintained inter‐male distances. Broadcasts of G. integer song through aggregated and isolated loudspeakers showed that the total number of crickets and parasitoid flies, Euphasiopteryx ochracea , attracted to aggregated loudspeakers was greater than that to an isolate. The average number of attracted crickets and flies in an aggregation was comparable to the isolated total.