The Menetries's tiger moth (Borearctia menetriesii) is the most rare and enigmatic representative among the Palearctic Arctiinae. During an expedition in almost inaccessible wild taiga area of Eastern Siberia, Russian scientists ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 16, 2015
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Aenigmatinea glatzella – which has iridescent gold and purple wings – is a 'living dinosaur' that represents an entirely new family of primitive moths. This is the first time since the 1970s that a new family of primitive ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 4, 2015
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(Phys.org)—A team of researches with members from several institutions in the U.S. has found that the long tails sported by the luna moth exist as a means to foil attacks by bats. In their paper published in Proceedings ...
A small brown moth has one of the most complex sex lives in the insect world, new research has found.
Plants & Animals
Dec 22, 2014
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(Phys.org) —The way in which male moths locate females flying hundreds of meters away has long been a mystery to scientists.
General Physics
Oct 21, 2014
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A team of Iranian researchers from the Rice Research Institute of Iran have discovered that Gynnodomorpha permixtana, a well-known moth species from Europe and Asia, has changed its host preferences in order to adjust to ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 11, 2014
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Britain's moths are feeling the pinch – threatened on one side by climate change and on the other by habitat loss and harmful farming methods. A new study gives the most comprehensive picture yet of trends in moth populations, ...
Ecology
Aug 29, 2014
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North Carolina State University researchers have developed methods for electronically manipulating the flight muscles of moths and for monitoring the electrical signals moths use to control those muscles. The work opens the ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 20, 2014
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Car and truck exhaust fumes that foul the air for humans also cause problems for pollinators.
Plants & Animals
Jun 26, 2014
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(Phys.org) —A pair of researchers with the Florida Museum of Natural History at the University of Florida has conducted a through genetic analysis of butterflies and moths and in the process has revealed some of their evolutionary ...
