(via PBS Deep Look) Tiger beetles are lightning-fast hunters, sprinting so quickly they momentarily outrun their own vision. Watch how these tiny but ferocious predators use blistering speed to chase ...
When tiger beetles hear a bat nearby, they respond by creating a high-pitched, ultrasonic noise, and for the past 30 years, no one has known why. In a new study, scientists lay the mystery to rest by ...
Sounding like a toxic moth might keep some beetles safe from hungry bats. When certain tiger beetles hear an echolocating bat draw near, they respond with extremely high-pitched clicks. This acoustic ...
Ever heard of the oil beetle? How about flea beetles? The knapweed root weevil looks like something out of a science fiction movie. You can find all of these, and many more, on the Missoula Butterfly ...
Bats, as the main predator of night-flying insects, create a selective pressure that has led many of their prey to evolve an early warning system of sorts: ears uniquely tuned to high-frequency bat ...
Ever heard of the oil beetle? How about flea beetles? The knapweed root weevil looks like something out of a science fiction movie.