Animal communication is a dynamic field that promotes cross-disciplinary study of the
complex mechanisms of sending and receiving signals, the neurobiology of signal detection …

This review presents an overview of the potential use of substrate‐borne vibrations for the
purpose of achieving insect pest control in the context of integrated pest management …

While we may have always assumed that insects employ auditory communication, our
understanding of it has been impeded by various technical challenges. In comparison to the …

Biotremology is a field of study focused on an ancient way of communication by animals
endowed with specialized organs for emission and reception of substrate-borne vibrations …

Pit-building antlions, the larvae of a winged adult insect, capture food by digging funnel-
shaped pits in sand and then lying in wait, buried at the vertex, for prey to fall inside. The …

Airborne and substrate-borne sounds playa crucial role in intraspecific communication in
many social insect species, and often also in interspecific information transfer. Acoustical …

The larvae of the antlion Euroleon nostras are pit‐builders, constructing pitfall traps in loose
sand. The number of pits and the pit diameter are recorded when larvae are kept in …

After a brief survey of biotopic and vegetational features and an account of the main groups
of desert animals, the most unusual patterns of the behaviour of the xerophilous fauna are …

The sandfish lizard, Scincus scincus, inhabits the Sahara Desert and spends most of its time
buried in the sand. Laboratory experiments were performed to determine if Scincus can …

Unique in the insect world for their extremely sedentary predatory behavior, pit-dwelling
larval antlions dig pits, and then sit at the bottom and wait, sometimes for months, for prey to …