In my fifty-plus years of association with aviation, the best aeroplane I ever flew was undoubtedly the De Haviland Tiger Moth. As a young student pilot, I used to regularly fly the ‘Tiger’, operating ...

A Virginian Tiger Moth looking fearsome. If you walk near the lake at night, there’s a good chance you’ll see bats swooping through the air to feast on insects. What you might not see - or hear - is ...

Bats may have a clever way of catching prey, but it turns out the tiger moth has some tricks of its own to avoid becoming a bat’s next meal. According to a study published in Science, the tiger moth ...

A new study shows Bertholdia trigona, a species of tiger moth found in the Arizona desert, can tell if an echo-locating bat is going to attack it well before the predator swoops in for the kill – ...

LAKELAND -- The Tiger Moth airplane looks great, but it's the angry Woody Woodpecker painted on both sides of its nose that seems to amuse most of the people at Sun 'n Fun who stop by to check it out.

The name Tiger Moth may not mean all that much today, but back in the years preceding the Second World War, it was on everybody’s lips. Especially when those lips belonged to the pilots who would go ...

Bats view the world in echoes, timing the reflections of their own ultrasonic calls to navigate and hunt. This biological sonar, or echolocation, has made them masters of the night sky; it’s so ...

Tiger moths can thwart attacks from bats by effectively jamming the bats' sonar, doing so by emitting sudden bursts of ultrasound, scientists now find. Past research had revealed that many ...

There have been over the years some interesting names being used by carmakers for their models. Yet one has to admit that the imagination of those in the aviation industry knows virtually no limit ...

A Tiger Moth has found a new home at an airfield where dozens of the aeroplanes were used to train pilots during World War Two. The biplane has been donated to the Bottisham Airfield Museum, near ...

It's kinda tough being a moth. Not only do you have to go through the icky process of pupating, but you're also the favorite food of bats, which use ultrasonic echolocation to swoop down and pounce on ...