A female crab spider eats a katydid. The crab spider species Epicadus heterogaster appears as a white flower and glitters in the sun, attracting in prey. Photograph By JAVIER AZNAR GONZALEZ DE ...

A new eavesdropping study of bats and katydids provides evidence that sensory differences can influence the 'evolutionary arms race' between predators and prey. A new eavesdropping study of bats ...

The experiment showed that M. microtis preferred walking katydid models to still or vibrating ones. They also chose vibrating models over motionless prey and scanned moving prey for longer periods ...

Crickets and katydids are still singing in grasses ... When a cricket or other prey comes within range, the legs lash out in a killing maneuver. Even when the prey doesn't die immediately ...

KATYDIDS ARE remarkable insects with an uncanny ability to ... and there’s an abundance of insect prey available, so you’re not too worried about foraging and have time to investigate this strange ...

Lesser false vampire bats – native to South and Southeast Asia – bring their prey back to their roost to eat. A large proportion of the bat diet consists of insects like katydids. In earlier ...

Katydids are large long-horned grasshoppers ... predator with an exceptionally wide mouth that allows it to swallow prey nearly as large as its own body, including birds, mice and other ...

Therefore, although katydids calling in a group can attract bats, the bats’ inefficiency in capturing katydids in groups can benefit the prey, stated the institute.

Katydids prefer to be heard rather than seen. The insect’s name, an onomatopoeic transcription of the male mating call, first appeared in print in 1784, in Scottish American physician J.F.D ...

They counted katydids trapped in fine nets or attracted ... the belief that predator avoidance is … not as important as prey availability.” Susan Milius is the life sciences writer, covering ...