What if doctors could guide life-saving treatments through the body using only a magnet? An interdisciplinary collaboration ...

When farmers apply pesticides to their crops, 30 to 50% of the chemicals end up in the air or soil instead of on the plants.

"This study represents the only record of the species apart from the holotype [collected in 1951]." Scientists stunned after ...

The species, dubbed the "bone collector," belongs to an ancient lineage of moths older than the Hawaiian island of Oahu, ...

Nature’s natural colors can be breathtaking. Tropical birds are famous for their brightly colored feathers, and many fish ...

The silkworm is the larva of the silk moth. They molt four times before secreting threads of silk to weave their cocoons. After the cocoons are dried, they are boiled to draw out one thread of ...

Like butterflies, they belong to the Lepidoptera order but there are a few key differences between butterflies and moths. Butterfly antennae are clubbed with balls on the end of a slender antenna.

Male silk moths are known to search for female moths by using their antennae to detect pheromones that the females emit. Shinshu University associate professor Daigo Terutsuki, 36, a researcher at ...

A drone equipped with an antenna from a male moth can locate the source of a smell more accurately than any electrical sensors. Unfortunately, however, the only smell it can detect is the sex ...

“This idea provides a new perspective on why some butterflies and moths are picky eaters while others are not,” said Dr. Po-An Lin. To explore how insects might have evolved to detect these scent cues ...

Others are the polar opposite, feeding on a broad range of vegetation. The hypothesis explains these extremes by focusing on how butterflies and moths use their antennae to detect plant scents.