Fostering research progress in a rapidly growing field -- Stretching the paradigm or building anew? Development of a cohesive language for vibrational communication -- Sound or vibration, an old question in insect communication -- Hildegard Strübing - a pioneer in vibrational communication research -- Sound production - the crucial factor for mate finding in planthoppers (Homoptera - Auchenorrhyncha) (Preliminary communication), 1958 -- Interactions between airborne sound and substrate vibration in animal communication -- Vibrational communication networks: eavesdropping and biotic noise -- Active space and the role of amplitude in plant-borne vibrational communication -- Mutual behavioral adjustment in vibrational duetting -- Communication through plants in a narrow frequency window -- Physical aspects of vibrational communication -- The role of wave and substrate heterogeneity in vibratory communication: Practical issues in studying the role of vibratory environments in communication -- Vibrational playback experiments: challenges and solutions -- Functional morphology and evolutionary diversity of vibration receptors in insects -- Echolocation in whirligig beetles using surface waves: an unsubstantiated conjecture -- Sand-borne vibrations in prey detection and orientation of antlions -- Mechanical signals in honeybee communication -- Barth Vibratory communication in stingless bees (Meliponini). The challenge of interpreting the signals -- The role of frequency in vibrational communication of Orthoptera -- The tymbal - Evolution of a complex vibration-producing organ in the Tymbalia (Hemiptera excl. Sternorrhyncha).