Tag: Moths
Say you’re a hawk moth, quietly minding your own business, doing whatever it is hawk moths do, when you hear a sound. To your finely-tuned ear, it sounds like a bat, ready to swoop in and make an attack; you don’t have enough time to get away, and the flying predator is getting closer by […]
First turbo-speed cockroaches, now sex-crazed moths? LORD HAVE MERCY. In attempt to improve the navigational skills of robots, Japanese researchers devised this utterly disturbing contraption that allows male silkmoths to steer themselves towards female moths. Well, actually just their pheromones. What a tease! The experiment is part of a study on the sensory motor and tracking skills of […]
