Unlike social insects such as bees and ants, moths are generally loners. So, when Florida Museum of Natural History lepidopterist Andrei Sourakov spotted a dozen glossy black Idia moths inside a hollow tree, he made a mental ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 27, 2018
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Hungry moths are the bane of French wine growers' lives due to their ferocious ability to feast on vines, but producers have discovered an unexpected ally in their fight against the insects: bats.
Plants & Animals
Mar 27, 2018
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In the evolutionary arms race between bats and their insect prey, some moths have developed ears to detect echolocating bats and avoid being caught. Conversely, barbastelle bats are known to counter moth hearing by using ...
Ecology
Mar 14, 2018
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Moth scales, preserved in the mud of a coniferous forest lake, have been used to identify outbreaks of these insects over the past 10,000 years. This groundbreaking new technique, reported in the open-access journal Frontiers ...
Environment
Feb 22, 2018
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Scientists have discovered a new species of moth in northern Europe, which was previously unknown to science.
Plants & Animals
Feb 19, 2018
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An invasive leaf-mining moth, feeding on cornelian cherry, has been gradually expanding its distributional range from its native Central Europe northwards for a period likely longer than 60 years. During that period, it has ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 8, 2018
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New members have joined the ranks of the snout moths - one of the largest groups within the insect order known formally as Lepidoptera, comprising all moths and butterflies.
Plants & Animals
Jan 25, 2018
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Butterflies and moths, the Lepidoptera, are among the most beautiful of insects, familiar to almost everyone through thousands of different species from all around the world. But how they evolved has been something of a mystery ...
Paleontology & Fossils
Jan 15, 2018
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An entomologist from the University of Gdansk in Poland has rediscovered a striking blue-and-white species of clearwing moth known only from a single faded and damaged museum specimen collected in 1887. The Oriental blue ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 14, 2017
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Butterflies fly during the day while moths travel at night - or so you might think. In reality, their behavior is much more complicated.
Plants & Animals
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