Female moths avoid laying eggs on stressed plants that emit ultrasonic sounds. Instead, they choose silent, healthy plants.

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 ...

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 ...

Yponomeuta tymbal—image of a tymbal showing row of microtymbals. Credit: Hernaldo Mendoza Nava The workings of the ultrasonic warning sounds produced by the wings of a species of moth have been ...

A massive moth has shocked an Australian family due to its gigantic size and the helicopter like sound it makes while flying. Footage of the pest was uploaded to the Australian Native Animals Facebook ...

Science Daily reported that the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory have developed computer models that are predicting the changing climate is accelerating the population growth of ...

The monster that is threatening to turn premium Napa Valley wine into rotting slime was quickly plucked out from underneath the peeling bark of a grapevine. The white cocoon containing the beast was ...