Australia is home to many extraordinary creatures, from Antarctic emperor penguins washing ashore to thelargest great white ...

Okay, so the giant wood moth isn’t exactly of kaiju proportions, but in insect terms, it’s still pretty hefty; some female ...

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

Eric LoPresti, an assistant professor of ecology at the University of South Carolina, used the words “fuzzy” and “adorable” to describe the southern flannel moth, a common springtime insect in North ...

A new study sheds light on how extreme weather events impact phenological processes, specifically the flight period of butterflies and moths and the flowering time of plants, with implications for ...

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 ...

Her work previously appeared in Newsweek. The Washington State Department of Agriculture (WSDA) is asking the public to keep an eye out for massive moths after one was spotted in Bellevue ...

The complaint argues the agency violated both the ESA and the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) when it concluded that the moth did not merit listing as threatened or endangered. The sand-verbena ...

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 ...

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.