These are five saddleback slugs – larvae of the saddleback slug moth (Acharia stimulea). You can see the distinctive saddle-like pattern on their green backs: a brown spot outlined in white (1). The ...

Can you make heads or tails of these two colorful beasties? They’re caterpillars of a kind of moth called a slug moth – so called because their legs are covered with suction cups, so they move like ...

said co-author Robert Guralnick, curator of biodiversity informatics at the Florida Museum of Natural History. Over the course of the study, researchers collected more than 35,000 moths ...

Discover the microscopic dimensions of the smallest moths on the planet. With a wingspan of just 2.5 millimetres, the Stigmella maya is one of the most petite moths known to science. But just how ...

Any gardener will tell you it has been a bumper year for snails and slugs. A mild winter, wet spring and a very changeable summer have all gone some way to boosting slug and snail activity this year.

Caimin Jones, Co Clare It was a large black slug, Arion ater ... Michael Hannon, Dublin It is Emmelina monodactyla, the common plume moth. This is classified as a micro moth on account of its ...

Residents along parts of Florida's Gulf Coast are evacuating and filling sandbags ahead of the arrival of Hurricane Helene, which was upgraded from a tropical storm on Wednesday and is forecast to ...

Moths are everywhere over the autumn weeks especially if you have a garden or live near grass or any kind of outdoor space. And while their presence is very healthy for the world (they get eaten ...

A new species of moth was found in a home in south Wales after travelling thousands of miles in a photographer's boot bag. Two clearwing moths appear to have hitched a ride when they were larvae ...

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A moment from a performance of “The Moth Project.” Credit: Marvin Zana. Before the pandemic, Peter Kiesewalter didn’t think much of moths. Like a lot of people, he’d thought of them mostly as pests.

How do I recognise tortrix moths? Tortrix moths attack both fruit plants and ornamental plants. They are nocturnal, whereas fruitlet-mining moths are active by day – they are dark brown with a 10mm ...