As humans drop off to sleep, the invisible world of moths comes to life. Across the planet, billions of the insects take flight on their nocturnal errands. Few places host more species than California ...

InsectNet -- which is backed by a dataset of 12 million insect images, including many collected by citizen-scientists -- provides identification and predictions for more than 2,500 insect species at ...

Jim Durbin stands for a portrait with cecropia moths at his home in Marion on Aug. 9. Durbin has collected more than 18,000 physical samples and roughly 500,000 photographs. The samples range in size ...

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Cindy Burkhardt had been watching a sphinx moth caterpillar in her garden for several days, but then it disappeared. Soon thereafter, she saw another trundling across a dirt road on Rabbit Mountain.

Most people think of moths as small insects fluttering across porch lights, but some species greatly challenge that image.

On a steamy June evening, Curtis Eckerman embarks on a mothing expedition in the Bauerle Ranch greenbelt, in far South Austin. Towing a wagon full of supplies, he follows a narrow trail that leads ...

The Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (VDACS) has announced the first detection of an invasive insect pest, the box tree moth (Cydalima perspectalis), in the Commonwealth.

Chennai: In the middle of the city's dense concrete landscape, 72 species of butterflies and moths found refuge in the ...