Sometimes, a creature unknown to science hides in plain sight without anyone realizing its significance. In the case of one ...

Animals are disappearing from the planet at an alarming rate. Each day, an estimated 200 species go extinct. Some of the ...

A moth specimen collected roughly 170 years ago by the famed naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace sat neglected in museum storage for more than a century and a half before researchers finally identified ...

European Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths), with a currently known inventory of approximately 11,000 species, are generally considered well-researched. However, a new genus and species from the ...

Arctesthes avatar moth, which won nearly half of the votes, was discovered in 2012 and is critically endangered ...

A university student's research project has uncovered a rare moth species not recorded in a county for more than 80 years.

The identity of the invasive Argent moth, earlier identified as Argyresthia reticulata or Argyresthia freyella is established as being Argyresthia sabinae from Japan and China. This emphasizes an ...

One kind of Australian moth looks to the stars on its voyage to a summertime refuge. In spring, mounting temperatures and dwindling food sources send the moths roughly 1,000 kilometers south toward ...

By Ryan Truscott A strikingly handsome emerald-green moth, lost to science for nearly one-and-a-half centuries, has been ...