Huge thanks to my amazing coauthors including
@jay-gallagher.bsky.social, @normanlee.bsky.social, Mary Westwood, Vanessa Leon-Gamez, Lauren Bitner, and
@robinmting.bsky.social! I could not have done this project without them!

But here's the twist! These differences disappear in the lab, with Australian females becoming more accepting; that pattern suggests that ancestral plasticity has been lost in Hawaii, leading to rather permissive females.

In the field, female Pacific field crickets from historically bottlenecked Hawaiian populations show more relaxed preferences for newly evolved long distance mating songs while females from ancestral populations discriminate against them (photo credit: David Zonana). (2/4)

Cricket crew! @dalebroder.bsky.social @gwelsh.bsky.social 🦗