Sitting alone in the cockpit of a small biplane, Martin Wikelski listens for the pings of a machine by his side. The sonic beacons help the ecologist stalk death’s-head hawkmoths (Acherontia atropos) ...
It’s a bird, it’s a plane—no wait, it’s a migrating moth… being followed by a plane? For the first time, scientists have continually tracked an insect over more than 50 miles of a long-distance ...
THE singular cry produced by the Death's Head Moth has for a long time been known to naturalists, and the question of the exact method of its production has given rise to much discussion. To judge, ...
The Irish Naturalists' Journal is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that has published issues every year since 1925. It is unique in scope and content, covering all aspects of Natural History, and is ...