The white-lined sphinx moth ( Hyles lineata) is a North American sphingid sometimes mistaken for a hummingbird as it hovers ...

"We know that daytime migratory insects use the sun, so testing the starry sky seemed an obvious thing to try." ...

Learn to identify the most colourful British moths and their caterpillars, including elephant hawkmoths, cinnabar moths and tiger moths. Discover what moths eat, which moths fly during the day and ...

ALL moths are not clothes moths, nor do all caterpillars eat cabbages, as many laymen still believe. There is much ignorance to dispel, and at the same time a growing appetite for knowledge of ...

Moths may show up throughout the day, but prime mothing time is about an hour after sunset through dawn, says Haramaty. Anywhere will work: One entomologist in Scotland recorded 190 species from ...

Age is just a number, or is it? A new study by UTEP researchers shows that adult moths are more vulnerable to attack than ...

The Moths of Northern KwaZulu-Natal, including Harrismith in the Free State, gathered for their annual district meeting at Rorke’s Drift over the weekend, commemorating the historic Battle of ...

Bogong moths are the first invertebrates known to navigate using the night sky during annual migrations to highland caves ...

More information: Day-night gene expression reveals circadian gene disco as a candidate for diel-niche evolution in moths, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences (2024).

Paleontologists recently discovered a 506-million-year-old “moth-like” predator that lurked in prehistoric Canada. In a press release from the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), officials identified ...

THE last of the many recent additions, superficial and profound, to the stock of books on British Lepidoptera, is essentially a book for the beginner, but one which challenges consideration as an ...