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Experience modulates an insect’s response to anthropogenic noise

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  • Mario Gallego-Abenza
  • Nicolas Mathevon
  • David Wheatcroft
  • Ulrika Candolin

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In response to anthropogenic noise, vertebrates express modified acoustic communication signals either through individual plasticity or local population adaptation. In contrast, how insects respond to this stressor is poorly studied. Field crickets Gryllus bimaculatus use acoustic signals to attract and locate mates and are commonly found in noisy roadside environments, offering a powerful system to study the effects of anthropogenic noise on insect communication. Rapid repetition of sexual calls (chirps) is essential to attract females, but calling incurs energetic costs and attracts predators. As a result, males are predicted to reduce calling rates when background noise is high. Here, we combine observations and experimental playbacks to show that the responses of field cricket males to anthropogenic noise also depend on their previous experience with passing cars. First, we show that males living on highway edges decrease their chirp rate in response to passing cars. To assess whether this behavioral response depends on previous exposure to car noise, we then broadcast recordings of car noise to males located at different distances from the road and, therefore, with different previous exposure to car noise. Although all tested individuals responded to broadcasted traffic noise, males closest to the road decreased their chirp rate less than individuals calling further from the road. These results suggest that regular exposure to anthropogenic noise may decrease individuals’ sensitivity and behavioral responses to noise, allowing them to maintain effective signaling rates. Behavioral plasticity modulated by experience may thus allow some insect species to cope with human-induced environmental stressors. Lay Summary Field crickets modulate their acoustic signals based on their degree of previous experience with traffic noise, which may help them avoid its interfering effects. These results help us understand how insects living in urban areas accommodate novel abiotic factors, in particular, traffic noise created by humans.

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  • Mario Gallego-Abenza & Nicolas Mathevon & David Wheatcroft & Ulrika Candolin, 2020. "Experience modulates an insect’s response to anthropogenic noise," Behavioral Ecology, International Society for Behavioral Ecology, vol. 31(1), pages 90-96.
  • Handle: RePEc:oup:beheco:v:31:y:2020:i:1:p:90-96.
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