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2007-01-09 01:28:28 · 4 answers · asked by Scott F 1 in Science & Mathematics Zoology

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As others have stated, there are insects that make sounds, but they aren't produced by forcing air through a set of vocal cords, as occurs in mammals and birds.

The sound made by a few species, such as the Madagascar hissing cockroach could potentially be called vocalizations, since they make the sound by expelling air through their breathing spiracles. But those would be about the only ones.

Crickets and grasshoppers make their sounds through stridulation, sawing a special bumpy ridge on their leg against their wings - so it's more like fiddling than vocalizing.

Loud insects like cicadas make their sounds by stretching or thumping on a special panel of tissue on their abdomen. It's more like playing the drum, or clicking the top of a Snapple bottle than vocalizing.

As far as I know, there's no spiders that make any kind of sound - at least not deliberately.

2007-01-09 02:51:14 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

Spiders and insects "breathe" through their skin. No lungs or vocal cords, of course we all know that insects make sounds in other ways like crickets or the buzz of a fly

2007-01-09 01:43:46 · answer #2 · answered by ozywadle 3 · 0 0

http://johnhawks.net/weblog/reviews/behavior/non-primate

You might try here. I have yet to find anything that says they do. Some rodents and other small animals do this >>> For instance female mice or their pheromones, emit ultrasonic vocalizations with frequencies ... of other insects and animals, such as ants, spiders, fish and even ...
Exerpt taken from above site.

2007-01-09 01:35:31 · answer #3 · answered by ebay_convert 5 · 0 0

it's an cutaneous , organisms it can exchange the gases through cuticle

2007-01-09 01:48:39 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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