Scientists at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) found that the fringe-lipped bat, known to eavesdrop on frog and toad mating calls to find its prey, learns to distinguish between ...

Credit: Journal of The Royal Society Interface (2025). DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2024.0616 In looking at the video and simulations, the researchers found that the bats slowed down as they approached the ...

Periodical cicadas have appeared in Western Kentucky counties over the past few years, but the largest emergence area for 2025 will occur across most of Central and Eastern Kentucky. According to ...

Female cicadas will bore their ovipositor into young, tender tree or shrub branches and deposit 200-600 eggs. While using insecticides may be less costly, Larson said the safest and most effective way ...

A female periodical cicada makes slits in a branch with the egg-laying appendage called an ovipositor at Morton Arboretum June 6, 2024, in Illinois. (Carolyn Kaster/AP) Cooley said the ...

And if you’re there late on a summer night, when the temperature is warm, and you have the crickets and the katydids and all these insects beating a whole other set of rhythms that are faint ...

Anyone who has chickens knows that each one has its own personality. Some might be especially vocal, while others are shy or curious. The one thing they all have in common is their cleaning habits, ...

Image credits: Getty Images Insects like crickets and locusts have taste receptors in their ovipositor, an organ that deposits their eggs so that they can calculate if the place where they are ...

Eggs collected within 20 min of oviposition were injected within 2 h with the mixture of sgRNA and Cas9 protein using an IM300 Electric Microinjector (Narishige, Tokyo Japan). The injected eggs were ...

Are fish mammals? Fish are not mammals, but they are such a diverse group that putting all of them into one class is inefficient. Some species were once classified alongside animals that are not fish ...