Discover the amazing silk moths you can expect to find in the garden. See photos of silk moths and learn facts about these ...

There isn’t a big difference between a butterfly and a moth, but we all know which one out of the two gets more love in the world. Butterflies are bright, colourful and pretty – you can get ...

The increasing use of artificial light at night is one of the most dramatic man-made changes on earth. Streetlights and ...

A pair of musicians wrote a concept album inspired by moths—and found that humans have more in common with the insects than ...

Let us consider five insect allies. Legend tells us that the Chinese empress Leizu founded the cultivation of silk from caterpillars over 5,000 years ago, after a silkworm moth cocoon plummeted ...

A Carmenta brachyclados, or short-branched clearwing moth, as seen from above and below. Photos from Sterling, Cadet, Beasley and Lees (2024) After analyzing the insect’s DNA, scrutinizing its ...

A zoologist couple from Chattogram, Md Jahir Rayhan and Sayema Jahan, determined the genus and the species of a newly discovered moth and came up with a name for it — Paraxenoacria spinosa ...

A new species of moth was found in a home in south Wales after travelling thousands of miles in a photographer's boot bag.

Scientists in the United Kingdom discovered a new species of clearwing moth after a photographer unknowingly carried it home from Guyana. Photo from Sterling, Cadet, Beasley and Lees (2024) ...

Have you ever been outside on a cool morning and seen a luna moth (Actias luna ... mistaken for a monarch (Danaus plexippus)? These butterflies and many others found in the Great Plains need ...