Each spring, billions of Bogong moths (Agrotis infusa) escape hot conditions across southeast Australia by migrating up to 1,000 km to a place that they...
This stability exists despite the incredible diversity seen today in wing patterns, sizes, and caterpillar forms across over 160,000 species globally,...
A challenge among University of Queensland researchers Matt Holden, Andrew Rogers and Russell Yong to identify species around their home in Brisbane, Australia,...
Scientists from Boise State University and elsewhere have tested 252 genera from most families of large-bodied moths. Their results show that ultrasound-producing...
In new research, a team of scientists from Zhejiang University and Vanderbilt University examined horizontal gene transfer — an important evolutionary...
Contrary to dogma that defensive venoms are simple in composition, mottled cup moth caterpillars (Doratifera vulnerans) produce a very complex venom containing...
A species of many-plumed moth believed to be new to science has been discovered in South Africa.
Alucita udovichenkoi, an adult male. Image credit: Kovtunovich...
A team of researchers at the University of Exeter has confirmed the classic textbook example of evolution in action — a phenomenon called industrial...
A bizarre new species of wasp, named Dolichogenidea xenomorph, has been discovered in Australia.
Dolichogenidea xenomorph. Image credit: Erinn Fagan-Jeffries.
Dolichogenidea...
Like many migrating birds, numerous species of nocturnal moths undertake long-distance migrations at night. Each spring, billions of Bogong moths (Agrotis...
New research by a team of scientists from the University of Exeter and elsewhere offers an illuminating insight into iridescent colors found on the earliest...
A groundbreaking new technique for studying lake sediments can tell scientists more about the frequency and intensity of past and future insect epidemics,...
An international group of paleontologists has found the oldest fossilized remains of insects from the order Lepidoptera known to date. The fossils, mostly...
A new study published online in the journal Science suggests that both the sight and flight of the dusk-foraging hawkmoth (Manduca sexta) likely evolved...
An international team of entomologists led by Dr Niklas Wahlberg from the University of Turku in Finland has described an enigmatic new species of moth...
The chicks of an Amazonian bird called the Cinereous mourner (Laniocera hypopyrra) mimic toxic, hairy caterpillars of the flannel moths both in appearance...
