Along with butterflies, moths belong to the order lepidoptera. When the light leaves the sky and the butterflies go to sleep, the late-night lepidoptera come out to play! The popularity of moth ...

In the middle of the 20th century, researchers studying insects along the southern coast of India collected a ...

A moth found in northern Australia and South-East Asia has an astonishing camouflage trick: it creates an optical illusion to look like a three-dimensional leaf, complete with a raised midrib ...

Currently, the moths are doing the most damage in Pike and Monroe counties, as well as in southern Wayne County. Last year across Lackawanna and Luzerne counties, foresters observed light activity ...

In the former study, Ilik Saccheri of the University of Liverpool, U.K., and colleagues crossed light- and dark-color moths and mapped their genetic differences. From a genetic sequence of 400,000 ...

In particular, scientist questioned whether birds were really the agents selecting between the light– and dark-colored moths, which rest on light or soot-covered trees, among other things. To lay the ...

This story appears in the June 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine. Light green, long winged, and roughly the size of a playing card, the luna moth is a striking creature. It’s a clever ...

Some moths have a light body; some have a dark, or melanic body. Body colour is an inherited characteristic. Before the industrial revolution, light moths had a selective advantage. Because they ...

A study sheds light on how extreme weather events impact phenological processes, specifically the flight period of butterflies and moths and the flowering time of plants, with implications for ...