This adult luna moth has a very penetrating gaze. These moths are quite large, and their caterpillars produce silk shortly before the pupa stage of their development. Get a closer view of the image ...

If you were asked to select five insects that have most profoundly altered humanity since Homo sapiens first fashioned tools ...

Already threatened by a deadly blight disease and several lesser evils, America’s top-selling shrub is now in the crosshairs ...

While working on a separate project involving extra-strong adhesives, the Tufts University Silklab team discovered that the silk from silk moth cocoons can be turned into a shootable, sticky protein ...

A zoologist couple from Chattogram, Md Jahir Rayhan and Sayema Jahan, determined the genus and the species of a newly discovered moth and came up with a name for it — Paraxenoacria spinosa ...

The Renfrew County and District Health Unit sent out a PSA last week cautioning that "the Hickory Tussock Moth Caterpillar is a venomous caterpillar that may be in Renfrew County and District." ...

However, there is no evidence of any Death’s-head Hawk Moth caterpillar ever surviving the winter this far north of the insect’s home range. Two other usual things about the species is that ...

The caterpillars feed on leaves, often spinning shelters of leaves or rolling them into protective tubes. They then move on to fruit, usually hiding by attaching a leaf to the fruit with silk and ...

Goetze: The general characteristics of many sphinx moths are similar, but, because over 70 species occur in the area, ...

There has been a decline in monarch butterfly numbers at the Te Puna Quarry Park butterfly sanctuary - a trend echoed around ...

The name “sphinx moth” is probably based upon the appearance of their alarmed and/or resting caterpillar larvae. The caterpillars tend to rise up and bow their heads when alarmed or resting ...