True to their name, tiger beetles are ambush predators that pounce on their insect in an aggressive, "tiger-like" manner. They seize their prey with long, sickle-like mandibles, and they are often the ...

PORTLAND, Ore.— The Center for Biological Diversity and the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation filed a petition today seeking Endangered Species Act protection for the imperiled Siuslaw ...

Tiger-beetles might confirm that I, too, suffer a bit of velleity. A powerful but culturally ignored word, “velleity” used to be defined as “volition in its weakest form.” I say “used to” because the ...

A rare little bug from the salt marshes near Lincoln has found its way into Jane Goodall's new book on how endangered species are being rescued from extinction. Goodall, one of the world's most ...

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 ...

A history of taxonomic descriptions of tiger beetles (Cicindelidae) is presented from 1758, when the first species were described by Carl von Linné, to present day. The number of new species over 50 ...

There are only two known populations of the Miami tiger beetle in the world. Both, as the insect’s name suggests, are located around Miami, in rare pine rocklands habitat. Because of the beetle’s ...

When night falls, a high-stakes acrobatic drama takes the stage, a swirl of bats hunting insects, trying to outmaneuver each other in aerial pursuit and escape. Science reporter Ari Daniel has the ...

If an insect drew a line as it chased its next meal, the resulting pattern would be a tangled mess. But there’s method to that mess: It turns out the tiger beetle, known for its speed and agility, ...

Westborough doesn’t have tigers, except on TV and online, but the human imagination has dubbed various native insects as one sort of “tiger” or another, including tiger beetles. Most of us have never ...

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 ...