Hawkmoths Jam Bat Radar With Bursts Of Ultrasonics From Their Genitals

July 21, 2013 – 12:12 am

Here.

Hat tip: John D.

Posted by Malcolm on at 12:12 am, filed under Science. RSS feed for this post. Trackbacks are closed, but you can post a comment.

3 Comments

  1. Horace Jeffery Hodges says

    How do hawkmoths generate that burst of sound? Here’s how:

    “Males do so by grating modified scraper scales on the outer surface of the genital valves against the inner margin of the last abdominal tergum.”

    Those little buggers are masturbating! The anti-bat function to scratching their itch must simply have been a fortuitous discovery . . .

    Jeffery Hodges

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    Posted July 21, 2013 at 3:24 pm | Permalink
  2. TheBigHenry says

    Some women can also ward off bats with a burst of shrieks when their genitals are scraped.

    Unfortunately for atheists, they can’t ward off bats. They haven’t anyone to cry out to.

    Posted July 21, 2013 at 10:43 pm | Permalink
  3. Kevin Kim says

    Holy crotch, Batman!

    Posted July 22, 2013 at 11:46 am | Permalink

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