But just how miniature do you need to be to qualify as a micro-moth? The scientific name for butterflies and moths is Lepidoptera. Museum curator David Lees specialises in the smallest species, ...

Natural History Museum scientists from separate fields, a budding young ecologist, and a globe-trotting photographer all ...

A new species of clearwing moth was found in Port Talbot, Wales. A few moths had been accidentally brought into the UK from Guyana in a camera bag after a photography trip. They stood out as unusual ...

Although both moths and butterflies fall under the Lepidoptera order of insects, they actually possess many unique ...

The Florida Entomologist Vol. 89, No. 2, Jun., 2006 Biology and Mating Behavior of the Cocon... Biology and Mating Behavior of the Coconut Moth Atheloca subrufella (Lepidoptera: Phycitidae) This is ...

A zoologist couple from Chattogram, Md Jahir Rayhan and Sayema Jahan, determined the genus and the species of a newly discovered moth and came up with a name for it — Paraxenoacria spinosa ...

gives clues to how butterflies and moths became so widespread, thriving on every continent except Antarctica. The early Lepidopterans survived the mass extinction at the end of the Triassic ...

We are digitising more than half a million British and Irish butterflies and moths, as a pilot for the digitisation of all pinned collections ... the Museum's orange tip butterflies were collected ...

Clapham, A R, and Clapham, B N. 1939. The Valley Fen at Cothill, Berkshire. New Phytologist 38, 167–74.

Your support makes all the difference. A species of moth has been discovered inside a home in Wales, thousands of miles from its native habitat. It is believed two clearwing moths accidentally ...

As I was traveling around work the other day, I looked down and there was a woolly bear caterpillar. Dad always made a big ...