In the middle of the 20th century, researchers studying insects along the southern coast of India collected a ...

The mandolin moth serenades his potential mates. Image by The Natural Europe Project, Hungarian Natural History Museum. Licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 3.0. This creature has been romantically dubbed the ...

This story appears in the June 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine. Light green, long winged, and roughly the size of a playing card, the luna moth is a striking creature. It’s a clever ...

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A tiny, elusive moth species that can only feed on one kind of tree has been spotted in Germany after more than a century of going unseen in Europe. Stigmella torminalis, a pygmy moth with a ...

Miguel Baixauli via Unsplash In the middle of the 20th century, researchers studying insects along the southern coast of India collected a never-before-seen species of moth. The year was 1951 ...