Transmission of Vibrations along Plant Stems: Implications for Insect Communication

Many insects are known to communicate with percussive vibration and vibrations transduced with acoustic songs via plant tissue. Artificial percussive vibrations degrade in acceleration and velocity away from a vibration source along plant stems; the free and distorting and loosing energy faster than the fixed end. Woody stemmed plants vibrate within a narrow frequency band and thus transmit signals further than fleshy ones.