Tiger beetles are lightning-fast hunters, sprinting so quickly they momentarily outrun their own vision. Watch how these tiny but ferocious predators use blistering speed to chase down prey and finish ...

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True to their name, tiger beetles are ambush predators that pounce on their insect in an aggressive, "tiger-like" manner. They seize their prey with long, sickle-like mandibles, and they are often the ...

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. This acoustic ...

When night falls, a high-stakes acrobatic drama takes the stage, a swirl of bats hunting insects, trying to outmaneuver each other in aerial pursuit and escape. Science reporter Ari Daniel has the ...

PORTLAND, Ore.— In response to a petition filed by the Center for Biological Diversity and the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today that the ...

The term “hiding in plain sight” is a term that is used to describe things that should stand out from other things where it is, but often goes overlooked. There is actually a beetle that is found in ...

Tiger-beetles might confirm that I, too, suffer a bit of velleity. A powerful but culturally ignored word, “velleity” used to be defined as “volition in its weakest form.” I say “used to” because the ...

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 researcher discovered an interesting tiger beetle in the Midwestern State University insect collection. The MSU Texas collection, featuring specimens collected by the late Walter Dalquest, is ...

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.

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 ...