Vast numbers of insects and passerines achieve long-distance migrations between summer and winter locations by undertaking high-altitude nocturnal flights. Insects such as noctuid moths fly relatively ...

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Homeland security officials in Philadelphia say they've intercepted a destructive insect species that hitched a ride to the U.S. aboard a military plane. Homeland security officials in Philadelphia ...

The Florida Entomologist, Vol. 98, No. 4 (December, 2015), pp. 1262-1265 (4 pages) The Noctuidae are a family with many species worldwide, but in Mexico, there is little information about their ...

For many nocturnal moths, hearing sound waves is a matter of survival in the night sky. Their ability to detect ultrasonic calls emitted by bats determines whether they escape or become prey. This ...

For the survival of animals, successful foraging is equally important as predator avoidance. Therefore, in the relationship between predator and prey, both behaviors directly compete with each other.

Modern bomber-plane crews know just what to do when their receivers pick up the pings of an enemy radar. They transmit pings of their own designed to confuse an oncoming fighter or trick an attacking ...

The general characteristics of many sphinx moths are similar, but, because over 70 species occur in Texas and Oklahoma, variation is to be expected. A few of the more unusual and rare sphinx moths ...