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I AM not aware if it is generally known that there is a wasp in South America which seems to present undoubted evidence of a faculty to hear, or it may be to feel, and distinguish certain vibrations of sound.
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SIMSON, A. The Hearing of Insects. Nature 18, 540–541 (1878). https://doi.org/10.1038/018540f0
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