The life of a stag beetle (Lucanus cervus) is short and dramatic. Their mating rituals, as seen in this YouTube video, are ...
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 ...
Ummat Somjee goes to Thailand to observe the cultural tradition of fighting beetles. In Northern Thailand, the longstanding tradition of beetle fights is a fascinating spectacle. Ummat Somjee ...
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 ...