cricket fly abdominal hearing organs timing cricket tracking

A fly can locate a singing cricket with ears on its abdomen

A female cricket fly finds singing male crickets using two hearing organs on its abdomen. The two ears can respond only about 50 billionths of a second apart, yet that tiny difference is enough to tell the fly which direction to move before it attacks the cricket as a parasite.

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