The post The Planet’s Largest Moths Have Wingspans as Wide as Birds appeared first on A-Z Animals. Most people think of moths as small insects fluttering across porch lights, but some species greatly ...

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. Late fall and early winter are the best times of year to spot giant silk moth cocoons in New England. Perhaps you’ve seen these creatures in the summer ...

At first glance, it looks like an alien eye—a gorgeous blue iris around a carmel-colored pupil, thick eyelashes radiating out ...

Hotter, dryer conditions could be behind the increased reproduction of the beet moths - whose caterpillars are about 0.5-2cm long Farmers are hoping for a cool, wet spring to halt a three-year ...

Two extremely damaging crop pests have interbred to create hybrids resistant to more than one pesticide that could cause ...

Small invasive pest feeds inside leaves creating mines that kill tissue and reduce crop yields across Missouri farmland.

Female moths avoid laying eggs on stressed plants that emit ultrasonic sounds. Instead, they choose silent, healthy plants.

It's never fun finding that your home has unwelcome visitors, however, discovering that moths have eaten through your ...

THIS book was originally published in 1882, and then comprised all the species that were included in the catalogue of Staudinger and Wocke (1871). The present volume brings the subject much more up to ...

For years, tomato farmers across northern Nigeria have lived under the shadow of a tiny but deadly pest. Known scientifically as Tuta absoluta, the moth larva has ravaged tomato fields, leaving ...

W hile we’re all sad that season five of Stranger Things has been and gone, fear not, the creatures of planet Earth have just ...