Moth Mimicry: Using Ultrasound to Avoid Bats

Close up of a very large brown moth with a large spot on each of its four wings and dark dots on the tip of two of them. Caption: And that led into studying bat-moth interactions,

Dr. Jesse Barber of Boise State University headed to Gorongosa National Park to study the predator-prey interactions between bats and moths. Several of his experiments reveal the strategies that the Gorongosa moths use to avoid being eaten by bats.

(Source: DCMP)

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