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

Australia is home to many extraordinary creatures, from Antarctic emperor penguins washing ashore to thelargest great white sharkever recorded. Adding to this list of oversized wonders, construction ...

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While that may be true, these aren’t animals you’ll want to pet. In 2018, a visitor to Falls Lake described the consequences of his encounter with a southern flannel moth as “the worst pain he’d ever ...

Social media can help scientists track animal species as they relocate in response to climate change, new research shows.

There isn’t a big difference between a butterfly and a moth, but we all know which one out of the two gets more love in the world. Butterflies are bright, colourful and pretty – you can get ...

Scientists at the Natural History Museum (NHM), London, have discovered that a long-overlooked moth specimen in the Museum's collection was in fact collected by explorer and naturalist ...

Eyespots aren't restricted to butterflies and moths - they appear in a number of places throughout the animal kingdom. There are fish, birds, reptiles and other insects that have developed these ...

The Box Tree Moth (BTM) caterpillars are green and hairy, with black stripes and white dots. They grow to about 1 to 2 inches. Adults are white with a thick brown border on the wings and are active at ...

As scientists strive to improve forecasts of how plant and animal phenology responds to global ... of 172 Lepidoptera species (butterflies and moths) from 2016 to 2022," Li said.

A moth found in northern Australia and South-East Asia has an astonishing camouflage trick: it creates an optical illusion to look like a three-dimensional leaf, complete with a raised midrib ...