A weird group of boronias puzzled botanists for decades. ... Moths were occasionally mentioned in the botanical literature as potential pollinators, but the full story remained elusive—until now.

The adult female moth is "exceptionally capable" of selecting the appropriate leaves on which to lay her eggs, Andren said. A side view of a southern pink underwing moth caterpillar.

If you see a strange-looking hummingbird at a Bay Area park this summer, it might not be a bird at all. Heavy winter rainfall caused a population boom for a moth called the white-lined sphinx ...

The extra legs caterpillars have appear have origins in the primitive crustaceans that insects evolved from during the Ordovician period over 400 million years ago.

A team of scientists has discovered the secret to making ‘Boronia Babies’ is a tiny moth. Heliozelidae pollinate the weird flowers made famous by May Gibbs.

We consistently found one group of 15 moth species on the boronias with the weird flowers in the biodiversity hotspot of Western Australia's South West. Each moth species was found only on a ...