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The tiger beetle is a fast, predatory insect known for its vibrant, metallic colours and agile hunting skills. It derives its name from its tiger-like style of chasing and hunting its prey ...
DTR,Vipin Kapoor Sainy said, "The tiger beetle quest highlighted Dudhwa’s remarkable biodiversity, reaffirming it as one of ...
The survey was carried out under the ‘Tiger Beetle India Fest 2025’ organised for the first time by Tamil Nadu-based NGO, Rhopalocera and Odonata Association of Rajapalayam (ROAR).
Tiger beetles are, as the name implies, beetles, and beetles are insects, and like other members of this group, they have three body parts: the head, the thorax and the abdomen.
Adult tiger beetles have long sickle-shaped mandibles, large eyes, a head that is wider than its thorax and long running legs.
And because tiger moths are toxic to bats, that left Gough with a hypothesis. "It's likely," he says, "that these tiger beetles are producing the [ultra]sound to sound like other similar moths." ...
But tiger beetles take things a step further. When they hear a bat nearby, they respond with their own ultrasonic signal, and for the past 30 years, no one has known why. "It's such a foreign idea ...
Conservationists have celebrated breeding one of England's rarest insects in captivity for the first time. The Species ...
A new tiger beetle species was discovered in Houston, Texas, researchers say. In the urban sprawl of Houston lived a tiny creature that fascinated Texas researchers.
Tiger beetles generate "anti bat-sonar" to prevent echolocating bats from eating them, scientists say. An experiment suggests the beetles mimic sounds created by poisonous insects that bats avoid.
The researchers collected 19 tiger beetle species from southern Arizona and brought them into the lab. They tethered the insects to a metal rod and prompted them to fly.