The 2024 total solar eclipse provided some answers. Mexican free-tailed bats fly out of Frio Cave, Texas, on April 6, 2024. Photographer Babak Tafreshi used a fish-eye lens and soft flashes to ...

Growths on plants formed by parasitic weevils help their offspring hunker down on a Brazilian savanna and outlast the flames.

Weevils are around 3/8 of an inch in size, with their snouts being almost as long as their entire bodies. A weevil’s proboscis is almost as long as its entire body. ©YouTube/ Granny Beaver ...

If you manage fields with alfalfa, now is the time to be scouting for alfalfa weevil larvae in northern Indiana. Christian Krupke, Purdue Field Crops Pest Management Specialist, recently said that ...

As other sports have adapted to technology advancement, popular opinion and culture shifts, baseball has been a stalwart in tradition – one of which is the bats hitters use. But in 2025 ...

For her PhD research, bat biologist Kadambari Deshpande made overnight recordings of bat echolocation calls in the Western Ghats. A “good night” would generate about 30 GB of data from 11 ...

In that sense, the sudden furor over so-called torpedo bats is refreshing. At least, for once, we're arguing and conspiracy-theorizing about a different piece of equipment. But torpedo bats are ...

However, the WEEVIL opts for pure brute force as a way to not only destroy mines, but to get troops moving again by simultaneously forming a usable dirt road through the minefield. WEEVIL ...

The final score, 20–9, was almost too good to be true. And then, everybody noticed the bats. At first glance, the craze appears to be the culmination of the data-driven tweaks that have ...

You know the deal by now: The New York Yankees hit a bajillion home runs on opening weekend, with several of the sluggers involved swinging “torpedo” bats that are crafted more like bowling ...

You’ve been hearing all about torpedo bats of late, and with good reason. New equipment isn’t introduced to Major League Baseball often, but the torpedo bat represents a change in the design ...

Before then, Leanhardt had never really thought about the design of bats, any more than he’d thought about his glove or his spikes, he recently told reporters. But he was well positioned to ...