Moths have evolved thick 'stealth coats' to stop hungry bats from hearing them fly, one scientist has claimed. Moths are a mainstay food source for bats which use biological sonar to hunt their prey.

A new study has found that moths like the Antherina suraka, pictured here, may use their scales to avoid detection by bats. Philstone/Wikimedia Commons Hungry bats love chowing down on tasty, nutrient ...

It’s no secret that bats enjoy munching on moths when they’re feeling a bit hungry, but one thing that has always captivated scientists is how some moths evade bat-centric predation despite being one ...

Bats eat a lot of moths, which they locate in the dark via echolocation. According to new research, however, some moths have evolved sound-absorbing fur as a passive means of defence – and it could ...

Elusive target: the bullseye moth evades bats by absorbing ultrasound. (Courtesy: Thomas Neil) Scientists in the UK have discovered that the fur of some moths can absorb up to 85% of incoming ...

Nov. 6 (UPI) --The fur on the thorax of some moths absorbs the sound waves emitted by bats and their sonar systems, making them harder to detect, according to new research by scientists at Bristol ...

Some moths aren’t so easy for bats to detect. The cabbage tree emperor moth has wings with tiny scales that absorb sound waves sent out by bats searching for food. That absorption reduces the echoes ...

November 06, 2018 at 7:00PM GMT Nature has beaten humans to the stealth technology that shields advanced warplanes from radar. Some moths use precisely the same strategy to avoid being eaten by bats, ...

Moths are a mainstay food source for bats, which use echolocation to hunt their prey. Scientists are studying how moths have evolved passive defenses over millions of years to resist their primary ...

Removing the fur from the moth's thorax increased its detection risk by as much as 38 per cent. Dr Neil used acoustic tomography to quantify echo strength in the spatial and frequency domains of two ...