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For the first time in over a decade, endangered Ohlone tiger beetles roam a preserve near Soquel and await their chance to pounce on unsuspecting prey. Their metallic emerald bodies appear iridescent ...

If you ever want to meet someone enthusiastic about their job, catch up with the staff that works in the Omaha Henry Doorly Zoo Butterfly and Insect Pavilion. The first time I visited to discuss ...

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 ...

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

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The specimen was later verified against field guides and identified as Cicindela psarodea, a species formally described in ...

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 ...

In the first-ever translocation of adult tiger beetles, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) biologists released 43 Ohlone tiger beetles to a new home in Santa Cruz County earlier this year with the ...

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 ...

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.