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 ...

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 ...

From moths eating their own mothers to carnivorous caterpillars on the rampage, the world of insects isn't always as it seems. Some species of moth have developed dark and unusual habits in the fight ...

The new species is a clearwing moth, named Carmenta brachyclados, and was spotted in February 2024 by the ecologist, Daisy Cadet, flying at a window (with another dead specimen nearby) in the home ...

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 ...

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 ...

Some of his latest work is a collaboration with Dr Akito Kawahara of the Florida Museum of Natural History and Dr Jesse Barber of Boise State University. It involves looking at exactly how and why ...

In what UK scientists have described as an “improbable event” that “defies rational explanation,” a new species of moth was discovered in a home in south Wales, after travelling thousands ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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.