»stridulate

v.intr. To produce a shrill grating, chirping, or hissing sound by rubbing body parts together, as certain insects do; v.tr. To produce by rubbing body parts together. From Latin stridulus, from stridere, to make harsh sounds; onomatopoeic.

A cricket or tarantula may stridulate, the former to report the temperature, the latter to ward off predators.