Jiminy Cricket may not actually hold the door open for his lady friends, but he can still be chivalrous: researchers from the University of Exeter discovered that when threatened by predators, a male field cricket will protect his mate by letting her enter their burrow first. The work is published in the journal Current Biology . [Rolando Rodríguez-Muñoz, Amanda Bretman and Tom Tregenza, " Guarding Males Protect Females from Predation in a Wild Insect "] [More]














Source: Chivalrous Crickets Benefit from Protecting Mates