"Lots of things fly at night," says Harlan Gough, a wildlife biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Nightfall can set the stage for an acrobatic high-stakes drama in the air — a ...

Tiger beetles generate "anti bat-sonar" to prevent echolocating bats from eating them, scientists say. An experiment suggests the beetles mimic sounds created by poisonous insects that bats avoid.

A gardener has been left concerned after finding one of their garden plants covered with funky-looking beetles.  They ...

Roman was working as a juvenile corrections officer in the Houston area and hunting for beetles in his spare time. He was especially excited about tiger beetles, a diverse group of small ...

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.

To date, scientists have found at least six orders of insects—including moths, beetles, crickets and grasshoppers—that have evolved ears capable of detecting ultrasound. But tiger beetles take ...

A national conservation group is asking the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to enhance protections for an ultra-rare species of beetle that is only found in certain environments unique to ...

These are wetsalts tiger beetles, a species that’s developed heat-resistant shields on their abdomens that other members of their species living outside of Yellowstone don’t have, according to ...

De Oliveira, a tiger-cat expert at Maranhão State University ... "I'm glad I did, because it turned out to be this spectacular beetle." Tweed had never seen a longhorn beetle like this one ...

But tiger beetles take things a step further. When they hear a bat nearby, they respond with their own ultrasonic signal, and for the past 30 years, no one has known why. "It's such a foreign idea ...