To celebrate National Moth Week, bask in the beautiful variety of these oft-overlooked insects Shi En Kim; Photographs by Carla Rhodes | Reporter When the night falls and most people start to turn in, ...

Scientists who discovered a new species of alpine moth have used their findings to crack a 180-year-old mystery around the identification of another species of the insect. Two researchers from ...

Know your elephant hawk moth from your painted lady butterfly. Discover more about the world of butterflies, moths and their caterpillars, and what you can do to give them a helping hand. Photographer ...

Box tree moths, an invasive species of insects that can defoliate and kill boxwood shrubs, have been detected in Michigan.

As a caterpillar, the invasive spongy moth consumes as much leaf tissue as it can, as fast as it can, threatening the lives of whole forests across the upper Midwest. But Illinois continues to stand ...

For insects, which don't have a specifically defined body with particular senses and organs like us humans, various body parts do double the work. While their feet enable movement and stability, they ...