Table 1. Characteristics (mean ± SE) of chewing vibrations recorded from feeding larvae of the cowpea beetle Calosobruchus maculatus.
Sources of variation | Characteristics | ||||
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Strain | Sex | Periodicity (events/s) | Dominant frequency (Hz) | Bandwidth (Hz) at 3 dB | Amplitude (RMS) |
Brazilian | Female | 4.10 ± 0.54 | 2,400.00 ± 86.60 | 884.66 ± 39.44 | 9,354.43 ± 2,483.03 |
Male | 4.02 ± 0.46 | 2,325.00 ± 75.00 | 864.22 ± 37.62 | 10,150.22 ± 3,166.57 | |
Indian | Female | 5.01 ± 0.57 | 2,512.50 ± 81.01 | 750.34 ± 80.27 | 9,158.15 ± 3,079.65 |
Male | 4.88 ± 0.58 | 2,475.00 ± 91.85 | 700.70 ± 22.62 | 8,189.46 ± 727.19 |
The results are from 10 individual trials with larvae between 18 and 21 days old; the rates reported were sampled from the first 30 seconds of chewing.