For the nearly three-year-old female bat soaring into the Spanish skies in March 2023, it was just another night of striving to feed herself. But her overnight exploits were about to become the stuff ...

For many nocturnal moths, hearing sound waves is a matter of survival in the night sky. Their ability to detect ultrasonic calls emitted by bats determines whether they escape or become prey. This ...

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 ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Under the darkness of night, bats use soundwaves to find moths to ...

For the first time, scientists documented direct evidence of a bat preying on a bird at high altitude. By Douglas Main During spring and fall migrations, billions of birds take to the night skies. The ...

Short Wave's Regina Barber and Margaret Cirino talk through how moths produce an anti-bat signal, why clownfish could be counting to 3 and the first GMO food crop sold directly to home gardeners. It's ...

Jesse Barber and Akito Kawahara study the evolutionary arms race between bats and moths. In Sumacó, Ecuador, Entomologists Jesse Barber and Akito Kawahara study the centuries-long evolutionary arms ...

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 ...

“You may already have a lot of plants that attract the insects that bats need to feed from, things like ox-eye daisies, ...

"I have a little brown cocoon of an idea that may possibly expand into a magnificent moth of fulfilment," − Lucy Maud Montgomery Moths, the lesser-known relatives of butterflies, represent one of the ...