(Phys.org) —A battle for evolutionary dominance is raging in Arizona. Nick Dowdy, a graduate student at Wake Forest, spent his summer seeing which contender, the tiger moth or the bat, is prevailing.

A new study shows Bertholdia trigona, a species of tiger moth found in the Arizona desert, can tell if an echo-locating bat is going to attack it well before the predator swoops in for the kill – ...

Acoustic warning signals emitted by tiger moths to deter bats - a behavior previously proven only in the laboratory - actually occur in nature and are used as a defense mechanism, according to new ...

The first tiger moth to evolve had ancestral defenses--this species is the base of the tiger moth evolutionary tree." Five species of Gnophaela are members of the tiger moths, day flying moths that ...

The name Tiger Moth may not mean all that much today, but back in the years preceding the Second World War, it was on everybody’s lips. Especially when those lips belonged to the pilots who would go ...

The garden tiger moth is one of Britain's most striking insects, and July is one of the best times to spot this remarkable species. Emerging on warm summer nights, the garden tiger appears almost ...

(WINSTON-SALEM, NC, June 3, 2013) – When it comes to saving its own hide, the tiger moth can predict the future. A new study by researchers at Wake Forest University shows Bertholdia trigona, a ...