Crickets Spend Resting Behavior
How does Absence of Food Affect Time Crickets Spend Resting?
Samer Aldaher
BIO 2490 Behavior Section
Dr. David Gilley
INTRODUCTION:
What happens to crickets in phases of food insufficiency? In particular, how does their resting behavior change, if it even changes at all? The reason behind this study was to find out whether crickets applied their resting behavior as a means to survive or conserve energy in times of “famine”, if you will.
During the preliminary time spent noting and describing a variety of cricket behaviors, crickets being observed spent a great deal of time engaging in a variety of activities that involved motion, and only a small few that involved remaining still, or resting as it shall be called from now …show more content…
The dependent variable here was the time spent resting, and the independent variable selected to be tested was the access or absence of food. The predictions for the experiment were that: the crickets would rest more when deprived of food, the crickets would rest less when deprived of food and the crickets resting time would not change significantly between the two conditions. Based upon the above, the null hypothesis was set as: When deprived of food, cricket resting behavior will not change significantly compared with that of fed …show more content…
Behavior Name Non-anthropomorphic detailed description Context (when, where, who) Data Type Unit Measurement
Drinking Water Standing on cotton and drinking water Males and females, no specific time Duration Minutes
Gathering Standing together as a group motionless, tend to group with at least one member of opposite sex Males and females, no specific time, more often at night Duration Minutes
Wiggling Moving body without moving legs Males only, when in presence of female Duration Minutes
Remaining in Dark Finding dark location and staying there Males and females, no specific time, more often during light hours Duration Minutes
Rubbing legs together Males rub jumping legs together or on body, or rub jumping leg with hind walking leg
Females rub jumping legs along ovipositor Males and females, no specific time Frequency Motions/minute
Cleaning antennae with palp Grabbing hold of base of antennae with palp and slowly cleaning and releasing the antennae Males and females Duration Seconds
Vicious mating dance Males performing “wiggle dance” directed at other males also performing the dance Males, in presence of other dancing males, often associated with chirps Duration
Samer Aldaher
BIO 2490 Behavior Section
Dr. David Gilley
INTRODUCTION:
What happens to crickets in phases of food insufficiency? In particular, how does their resting behavior change, if it even changes at all? The reason behind this study was to find out whether crickets applied their resting behavior as a means to survive or conserve energy in times of “famine”, if you will.
During the preliminary time spent noting and describing a variety of cricket behaviors, crickets being observed spent a great deal of time engaging in a variety of activities that involved motion, and only a small few that involved remaining still, or resting as it shall be called from now …show more content…
The dependent variable here was the time spent resting, and the independent variable selected to be tested was the access or absence of food. The predictions for the experiment were that: the crickets would rest more when deprived of food, the crickets would rest less when deprived of food and the crickets resting time would not change significantly between the two conditions. Based upon the above, the null hypothesis was set as: When deprived of food, cricket resting behavior will not change significantly compared with that of fed …show more content…
Behavior Name Non-anthropomorphic detailed description Context (when, where, who) Data Type Unit Measurement
Drinking Water Standing on cotton and drinking water Males and females, no specific time Duration Minutes
Gathering Standing together as a group motionless, tend to group with at least one member of opposite sex Males and females, no specific time, more often at night Duration Minutes
Wiggling Moving body without moving legs Males only, when in presence of female Duration Minutes
Remaining in Dark Finding dark location and staying there Males and females, no specific time, more often during light hours Duration Minutes
Rubbing legs together Males rub jumping legs together or on body, or rub jumping leg with hind walking leg
Females rub jumping legs along ovipositor Males and females, no specific time Frequency Motions/minute
Cleaning antennae with palp Grabbing hold of base of antennae with palp and slowly cleaning and releasing the antennae Males and females Duration Seconds
Vicious mating dance Males performing “wiggle dance” directed at other males also performing the dance Males, in presence of other dancing males, often associated with chirps Duration