First, it was the spotted lanternfly wreaking havoc and killing trees and shrubbery in Bucks County and throughout Pennsylvania. Now, there's another invasive species chewing through vast numbers of ...

Sometimes, a creature unknown to science hides in plain sight without anyone realizing its significance. In the case of one ...

Animals are disappearing from the planet at an alarming rate. Each day, an estimated 200 species go extinct. Some of the ...

European Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths), with a currently known inventory of approximately 11,000 species, are generally considered well-researched. However, a new genus and species from the ...

Cindy Burkhardt had been watching a sphinx moth caterpillar in her garden for several days, but then it disappeared. Soon thereafter, she saw another trundling across a dirt road on Rabbit Mountain.

When it comes to an insect popularity contest between butterflies and moths, butterflies get most of the attention. Butterflies are usually, but not always, larger and more colorful. Plus, most moth ...

On any given day, if you look in Carl Barrentine's fridge, you're liable to find tupperware containers filled not with leftovers, but with brown, living, winged things: moths. During an evening visit ...

On a steamy June evening, Curtis Eckerman embarks on a mothing expedition in the Bauerle Ranch greenbelt, in far South Austin. Towing a wagon full of supplies, he follows a narrow trail that leads ...

For most of their history, moths navigated the night by the moon and stars. Today, that natural map is being drowned out by ...

SANDPOINT, Idaho -- Idaho Department of Lands is working to stop the spread of an invasive moth species detected in Sandpoint. According to IDL, the department conducts annual testing which involves ...

By Ryan Truscott A strikingly handsome emerald-green moth, lost to science for nearly one-and-a-half centuries, has been rediscovered in South Africa by citizen scientists who posted photographs of it ...

In A Nutshell White LED streetlights reduce moth activity by 85% compared to natural darkness, essentially freezing the insects in place throughout the night instead of just attracting them. “Wildlife ...