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

The six-spot burnet is the most common British burnet moth and the only species with six red spots on each forewing. According to Alessandro, though, 'Some of its spots can be fused, making it ...

Some British Moths By Norman Riley. (King Penguin Book.) Pp. ii + 30 + 16 coloured plates. ... Get the most important science stories of the day, free in your inbox.

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 ...

Both male and female rosy moths fly exclusively at night. Pink-striped oakworm moths, in the genus Anisota, are less flashy, with subtle grades of ocher, umber and marl.

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 ...

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). DOI: 10. ...