This spring, Ryan St Laurent became the first person in more than 60 years to see and collect a unique female moth in Florida that was previously believed to be extinct. St Laurent, a University of ...

One of nature’s most baffling phenomena has been the extraordinary power of female moths to attract mates over long distances. In one experiment, a female emperor in a gauze cage collected 127 males ...

A team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, together with colleagues from the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany, has studied olfaction in female silk ...

Samples of female spongy moths and larvae — part of a hundred year old collection at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station in New Haven. The female moths have wings but are flightless.

In most animal species, males and females show obvious differences in body size. But how can this be, given that both sexes share the same genes governing their growth? University of Arizona ...

Looks like humans aren’t the only species putting robots to use. Recently, a male moth drove a two-wheeled robot around in search for his female counterpart. A team of researchers from the University ...

If you’re a female moth, finding the best plant to host your young may be as simple as taking a close listen. When low on water, some plants make high-pitched clicking noises, inaudible to humans.

In the insect world of Arthropoda is a special group called Lepidoptera. This group is noted for monarchs, swallowtails and ...