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 ...

A research team that included members from Rice University discovered a new tiger beetle species named after the area where some were living — the Houston area. Associate professor of the Biosciences ...

Introduction. Physical description -- Life cycle -- Mating and mating behaviors -- Feeding behavior and prey -- Predators and parasitoids -- Seasonal patterns ...

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 ...