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 ...

Tiger beetles sprint so quickly they momentarily outrun their own vision! Tiger beetles are lightning-fast hunters, sprinting so quickly they momentarily outrun their own vision. Watch how these tiny ...

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 ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KTVZ) — In response to litigation brought by the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service must decide by August 2026 whether to protect the imperiled Siuslaw ...

* Tiger beetles may be small in human terms, but in the micro-habitat of a salt flat, they're definitely mighty. * They're fast on both wing and foot. Their big eyes assist in hunting open expanses.

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 ...