Agonistic signals received by an arthropod filiform hair allude to the prevalence of near-field sound communication.

Supplementary Material: Agonistic signals received by an arthropod filiform hair allude to the prevalence of near-field sound communication

Evidence for Air Movement Signals in the Agonistic Behaviour of a Nocturnal Arachnid (Order Amblypygi)

Many arthropods possess filiform hair sensilla (termed trichobothria in arachnids), which are extremely sensitive detectors of medium particle displacement. Electrophysiological evidence in some taxa suggests that these sensilla can detect air particle displacements resulting from intraspecific communication signals. However, it has not yet been shown for any species that the air particle displ...

Modeling arthropod filiform hair motion using the penalty immersed boundary method.

Crickets are able to sense their surrounding environment through about 2000 filiform hairs located on a pair of abdominal cerci. The mechanism by which the cricket is able to sense a wide range of input signals using these filiform hairs of different length and orientation is of great interest. Most of the previous filiform hair models have focused on a single, rigid hair in an idealized air fi...

Plume outflow intrusion impact on acoustical signal fluctuations in a pre-stratified environment

Existence of outflow intrusion introduces small-scale turbulence that perturbs the vertically stratified character of the sound velocity and causes spatial and temporal fluctuations of the sound propagation. In this experimental study, we have investigated acoustic wave propagation with frequency of 50 kHz in a pre-stratified environment with intrusion of a turbulent plume while the si...

Draft: Modeling Insect Filiform Hair Motion Using the Penalty Immersed Boundary Method

Many insects are able to sense their surrounding fluid environment through induced motion of their filiform hairs. The mechanism by which the insect can sense a wide range of input signals using the canopy of filiform hairs of different length and orientation is of great interest. Most of the previous filiform hair models have focused on a single, rigid hair in an idealized air field. We have d...