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 ...

When you think of moths, you might think of brown or grey furry creatures with odd antennae and an unusual relationship with lightbulbs, but they're actually one of our most interesting and ...

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 ...

Look, it’s a bird, it’s a plane, no it’s Supermoth!” Late summer brings an amazing insect to our flower gardens across the United States. It is the sphinx moth, also called the ...

Although the peppered moth has been the poster child of Darwinian evolution since the late 19 th century, over the past decade there’s been a public debate questioning the validity of this textbook ...

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 ...

Early fall brings an amazing insect to our flower gardens across the United States. It is the White-lined Sphinx Moth (Hyles lineata), also called the Hawk Moth or Hummingbird Moth. No matter what ...