Male follows the female cicada new dikawininya to make sure no other malecrickets are marrying and prevent the shedding of sperm that had been depositedback.
Photo: Tom Tregenza / New York Times
However, recent studies show that cricket was a bodyguard after mating. Recent studies in the wild proves that the male cicada's stalking, but the reason preventingthe females eaten by the predators.
To know this, since 3 years ago, scientists from the University of Exeter in Englandto monitor the crickets with an infrared camera. Studies conducted in small burrowsin the ground, a place where the crickets spend most of his life.
Scientists found that when there is danger comes, male crickets will first ensure thatmarried female crickets in a safe place. The result, females are married have a chance of surviving six times greater than virgin females.
Males who played the bodyguard did have a chance to die consumed four times greater because of fighting. However, their heroism paid off. From the results ofDNA analysis it is known that the male knights have more offspring and mate morefrequently.
"We know very little about the insects in the wild," said Tom Tregenza, scientistswho conducted this research, as quoted by the New York Times, last week.
He said the need for more research and plan to continue the study of therelationship of "mental" knight in males by the number of females who could marry.Tregenza study results published in the journal Current Biology.
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