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Case Study – The Cricket that Stopped Singing

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Imagine this: on a quiet night in Hawaii, the usual symphony of chirping crickets suddenly vanishes. But it’s not just a natural lull — it’s the sound of evolution in action.

This real-life phenomenon is the centerpiece of a ready-to-use biology case study perfect for your unit on evolution, natural selection, or animal behavior. It’s built around the fascinating discovery that a mutation causing male crickets to go silent actually helped them survive and reproduce — challenging students to think deeply about how evolution works in real time.

🧬 The Story: Evolution on Fast Forward

On the island of Kauai, male field crickets once sang loudly to attract mates. But when a parasitic fly arrived that could home in on the song and kill the singer, silence became a survival strategy. A genetic mutation called flatwing rendered some males mute — and surprisingly, those males began to thrive.

Students will explore:

  • How natural selection gave silent males a survival advantage
  • How sexual selection typically favors song, yet flatwing males still reproduced
  • Why the flatwing trait spread so rapidly through the population

This story isn’t fictional — it’s based on real, peer-reviewed research published by scientists investigating evolution as it happened.

🧪 What’s in the Lesson?

This downloadable case study includes everything you need for a powerful, standards-aligned classroom experience:

  • Engaging, student-friendly reading
  • Background info on cricket behavior and mating
  • Reading comprehension questions
  • Analysis of a real graph from the original scientific study
  • Free response prompt

Related Lessons

Case Study – The Island of the Colorblind – explore human evolution, genetic drift, and population bottleneck

Mutations and Evolution in Aquatic Mammals – lessons from whales that focuses on nonsynonymous mutations

Why Can’t We Be Friends – explore isolating mechanisms, such as behavioral, temporal, and geographic

Survival of the Sneakiest – this cartoon describes the cricket’s mating behavior in a student-friendly way



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