“We were thinking about ‘Big Moth’ as a name,” says saxophonist Ian Tordella, referring to the search for identity on a new project and recording. “But we decided on ‘Moth & Sons ...

Some moths use their wings to produce an ultrasonic warning sound against ... they are even making these sounds and they can’t even control the sound using muscular action.

The moth's ultrasonic hearing range, which was described Tuesday in the journal Biology Letters, could help the creature hear the sonar communication of their predators, bats, Windmill said.

Ermine moths produce ultrasonic clicking sounds twice per wingbeat ... nor do they have the capability to control it using muscular action. In the study, published today in Proceedings of the ...

Bat versus moth The team hypothesizes that the moth's ultrasonic hearing could help it evade their predators in many environments. The moth "would probably be the food for many different bats ...

Corcoran explains. Scientists knew that most species of tiger moths that emitted ultrasonic clicking sounds did so to signal their toxicity to bats—similar to how, for example, poison dart frogs ...