While green isn’t an unusual color in nature, beautiful green animals are somewhat rare and exotic. Many green-colored animals, such as toads and various insects, have little to distinguish them ...

Few places host more species than California’s Mojave Desert, a center of biodiversity for lepidoptera, the insect family encompassing roughly 180,000 known moth and butterfly species.

Earth is home to over 20,000 caterpillar species, found in every corner of the globe except Antarctica. While most are ...

In addition, their background colors change from dark green in eastern states to light green in the mountains west to yellow in California. Due to this variability, it can be difficult to identify ...

Critters More Than 4,000 Moth Species Flit Across Texas. One Scientist Photographed 550 in His Yard. Smaller, more obscure moths are Curtis Eckerman’s favorites: “I love seeing the little ...

Predators are far more likely to attack adult moths than caterpillars, highlighting the protective power of metamorphosis.

The box tree moth, an invasive species from East Asia, poses a significant threat to boxwood shrubs in Michigan. The moth caterpillars can defoliate a boxwood within a single season and eventually ...

Imagine traveling more than 600 miles from the only home you’ve ever known, to a mountain ridge you’ve never been to. It’s nighttime, completely dark, and you don’t have a map, GPS, compass, or ...

Species like spotted lanternflies, zebra mussels and wild pigs are popping up around the commonwealth. Here's how to handle ...

The moth, known by it's shortened Latin name Bradyrrhoa, or the Rush Skeletonweed Root Moth, brings organizations out year ...

Discovery reveals secrets about how ghost orchids reproduce Incredible photos show multiple species pollinate the rare and enigmatic flower, which is good news for the endangered species.

A new study by researchers from The University of Western Australia has used computer vision to reconstruct the false illusion of 3D shapes created by moth wing patterns.