A tiny hairy caterpillar ... Zealand dollars (about 51-million US dollars) — is the threat to the economy. New Zealand has some of the world’s biggest planted pine forests and the painted ...

Lepidopterists fear our native species are on the wane.

The caterpillar of the Uraba lugens moth is a bit of a deadhead, quite literally. The unusual caterpillar, found mostly in Australia and New Zealand, wears its old molted heads as a kind of ...

Gorse, possibly New Zealand ... moth (Pempelia genistella) is originally from Portugal and can only survive on gorse, so it poses no threat to native or other desirable plants. Its caterpillars ...

New Zealand agricultural officials confirmed on Wednesday that the light brown apple moth is being kept in check there by its natural predators, and suggest that the same treatment would also work ...

Schools and public libraries across New Zealand have received the country’s first bilingual identification guides to native moths. Ngā Puka Whakamārama o te Pepe Nui Beginners’ Guides to ...