...James H. Fullard; John M. Ratcliffe; Christopher G. Christie SUMMARY Certain tiger moths (Arctiidae) defend themselves against bats by phonoresponding to their echolocation calls with trains of ultrasonic clicks. The dogbane tiger moth, Cycnia tenera , preferentially phonoresponds to the calls...

... (aerial hawking), and the dogbane tiger moth, Cycnia tenera , an eared species unpalatable to bats that possesses conspicuous colouration and sound-producing organs (tymbals). This is the first study to investigate the interaction of tiger moths and wild-caught bats under conditions mimicking those found...

... in order to allow the bat time to understand their meaning. If, however, the sounds disrupt the bat’s echo-processing behaviour, one would expect them to be emitted later in the attack to maximize their confusion effects. To test this, we exposed dogbane tiger moths ( Cycnia tenera ) to a recording...