Word: noctuid
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Bats hunt night-flying moths by echolocation, uttering rapid chirps of ultra sonic sound and flying toward echoes that bounce back from their prey. It is a simple and effective system, but Dr. Roeder proved several years ago that noctuid moths can hear the search sonar of a cruising bat and take evasive action. To save their lives, they fold their wings and dive to the ground or shift suddenly into a zigzag course (TIME, June...
...away to the swooping enemy. Yet despite the bat's delicate detection equipment, many an insect escapes-and scientists have long wondered why. In the current issue of the American Scientist, Biologists Kenneth Roeder and Asher E. Treat explain how they pried into the defensive secrets of the noctuid moth, an insect that has demonstrated singular evasive skill...
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