In the 25th year of the BBC's Natural History Unit, the second half of a series in 26 parts. Narrator David Attenborough. 19: Instrumental Chorus.
Just as there is incredible diversity in insect size and shape, so too there is a wide range of sounds and sound production. David Aldley of the University of East Anglia, Henry Bennet Clark and Martin Birch of Oxford University, Arthur Ewing of Edinburgh University, Brian Lewis of the City of London Polytechnic, and David Ragge of the British Museum (Natural History), reveal how cicadas, crickets, grasshoppers, bark beetles and fruit flies communicate sound. Written and produced by MICHAEL BRIGHT BBC Bristol