One look at a regal moth and you might mistake it for a type of flower, like a marigold. It is large, vividly orange, and comes equipped with wings that look like petals. Stick around long enough, ...

A pink- and caramel-colored elephant hawk-moth sitting on a leaf. The content of a small box on his roof terrace in central London has taught ecologist Tim Blackburn more about the natural world than ...

On any given day, if you look in Carl Barrentine's fridge, you're liable to find tupperware containers filled not with leftovers, but with brown, living, winged things: moths. During an evening visit ...

European Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths), with a currently known inventory of approximately 11,000 species, are generally considered well-researched. However, a new genus and species from the ...

It is spring on the Front Range of Colorado, which means before long the region will receive an influx of many, many moths. Colorado is home to thousands of species of moths, many of which are ...

Populations of large moths seemed to be declining in a recent survey of the New Hope Creek Corridor. At the upcoming Moth Night, David Bradley of the Durham County Open Space Program said he is ...

With colors ranging from candy pinks to golds and sometimes possessing wingspans as big as a bird's, moths are a fascinating group. Ecologist Tim Blackburn tells Live Science about the incredible, ...