When a plant is stressed, it doesn’t keep quiet about it. You won’t hear the plant’s cry because it’s in the ultrasonic range — too high-pitched for human ears — but, for decades, scientists have been ...

Captive bats trained to catch mealworms tossed in midair turned away from most of these targets when simultaneously confronted with a recorded train of the ultrasonic pulses generated by an Arctiid ...

An acoustic battle between bats and their insect prey has been raging in the night skies for over 65 million years. Many different techniques are used, and our new study reveals the fascinating ...

Insect-eating bats use echolocation to catch moths, while these night-flying prey have evolved early sonar detection and aerobatic maneuvers to evade bats. They’ve been dueling it out for over 65 ...

Some plants emit a mournful melody using ultrasonic clicks when they become dehydrated or stressed, and it turns out that some moths can detect this melody and use it to decide where to lay their eggs ...

Jack has a degree in Medical Genetics from the University of Leicester.View full profile Jack has a degree in Medical Genetics from the University of Leicester. Being an insect is a hard-fought ...

There is just so much going on in science that no single person can keep up with it all. So when a friend of mine sent me a copy of an article about the beginnings of a remote-controlled moth, I just ...

A gray moth with orange highlights called Bertholdia trigona “goes berserk,” making lots of noise above the range of human hearing when a hunting bat approaches, says William Conner of Wake Forest ...