stridulations

"Singing" insects, such as crickets, utter sounds called stridulations by rubbing the edge of one forewing called a scraper against a hard bumpy surface called a file on the opposite forewing.

chron.com Chronicle 2011

The moths then begin their own stridulations, common in many forms.

Friday Flash: The Moth Chatter Lily icy_cobweb 2010

For all the confusion they might inspire, I love the stridulations of orthoptera (their technical name that means "rigid winged").

Country diary 2010

The moths then begin their own stridulations, common in many forms.

Friday Flash: The Moth Chatter Lily 2010

Again our choice: Either open up the decay within the system to the light of day and start the process of rebuilding and renewal, or allow the republic-ravening pestilence to continue unchallenged, hence unabated, and let the nation go bughouse crazy as the house comes down around us to the strains of the insect-brain stridulations of Beck, Hannity, and Limbaugh.

The Audacity of Hopelessness 2009

Less prone to panic, adult and adolescent thranx nonetheless broke out in alarmed clicks and stridulations, adding to the general confusion.

Diuturnity's Dawn Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2002

Their screams and stridulations melted together into a dull ache at the back of his mind.

Diuturnity's Dawn Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2002

Their screams and stridulations melted together into a dull ache at the back of his mind.

Diuturnity's Dawn Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2002

Less prone to panic, adult and adolescent thranx nonetheless broke out in alarmed clicks and stridulations, adding to the general confusion.

Diuturnity's Dawn Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2002

This time it was supportive stridulations that rose in volume from the other side of the table.

Dirge Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2000