Moths and butterflies are in the Order Lepidoptera and just part of the world’s million plus species of insects. In North ...

Ever since I was a kid, I’ve always loved those TV shows that tell us what a wild place nature can be. Jacques Cousteau, ...

Ohio’s moth fauna is incredibly diverse. At least 2,000 species have been documented, and scores of others await discovery. I once heard an expert on “micro-moths” say that if we could find all of ...

Purple wings, orange-gold markings, and crisp white bands make the newly described moth hard to miss. That is part of what ...

A genetic “cheat sheet” allows different species to display the same warning patterns.

Distinguished by its striking colors and a name that carries the weight of a high ecclesiastical office, a new species of ...

A Madagascan hawkmoth, whose existence was predicted by Darwin and Wallace, has now been recognized as a new species. Known as Wallace's sphinx moth, the moth is famous for its enormous tongue—the ...

A new species of clearwing moth was found in Port Talbot, Wales. A few moths had been accidentally brought into the UK from Guyana in a camera bag after a photography trip. They stood out as unusual ...

A newly described moth from Crete’s western mountains has been named in honor of Pope Leo XIV. Researchers say the find adds ...

Unique Cretan discovery: Entomologists identified Pyralis papaleonei, a medium-sized moth with purple forewings, as a new species endemic to Crete’s White Mountains. Symbolic naming choice: Named ...