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Sounds & Sonograms > Orthoptera Locomotive Grasshopper Chorthippus apricarius
male Locomotive Grasshopper (Chorthippus apricarius), Val d'Isère, Alps, France, Aug 2019
Val d'Isère, Alps, France 45° 27' 17.7" N 07° 02' 14.3" E 11 August 2019 Courtship song/stridulation from a male Locomotive Grasshopper (Chorthippus apricarius) in presence of a female in alpine grassland at 2081 metres. Named after its resemblance to an accelerating steam locomotive. A series of harsh chirps, initially slow and hesitant, eventually gaining speed to produce a distinctive mechanical rhythm lasting ~30 secs or more before repeating the cycle (at ~22°C). [File
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Val d'Isère, Alps, France 45° 27' 17.7" N 07° 02' 14.3" E 11 August 2019 Oscillogram of courtship song from a male Locomotive Grasshopper (Chorthippus apricarius) in presence of a female in alpine grassland at 2081 metres.
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