The receptive females answer with a matching pattern of usually brighter flashes. Once the male fire fly has found a potential partner, he touches her with his antennae to check that she has the correct scent. When the male wolf spider stridulates, he sends the vibrations through a leaf to the chosen female. As the female picks up the vibrations via sensory hairs in her legs she becomes sexually receptive. This musical turn on is essential if the male is to escape being eaten while he attempts to mate.
Crickets rub their wings together to play a romantic tune.
Veins in the wings have tiny teeth which scrape across the opposite wing and so produce a characteristic song. The sounds are detected by special organs situated in the front legs. Grasshoppers produce their serenades by rubbing the serrated edge of their hind legs against their folded wings. If he is lucky the female accepts this gift and allows him to mate with her. The worse case scenario is that she accepts the gift and then eats him before he can get in on the act.