Hawaiian love songs: Coevolutionary conflict between mate attraction and parasite escape.

Curr Biol

Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA. Electronic address:

Published: March 2025

The recent introduction of an acoustic parasitoid fly to Hawaii has profoundly disrupted the singing behavior of the Island's only field cricket, resulting in a coevolutionary arms race involving rapid alteration of both the songs the crickets produce and the ability of eavesdropping flies to hear the songs.

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