November has the honour of having two moths named after it: the November moth and Pale November moth. Both fly this month but the November moth is more likely to be seen. The November moth is active ...

The DH.83 Fox Moth is a small biplane aircraft built in the 1930s to carry passengers. It is powered by a single de Havilland ...

The insects flying in circles around your porch light aren’t captivated by the light. Instead, they may have lost track of which way is up, high-speed infrared camera data suggest. Moths and ...

It turned out to be a new species from halfway across the world. In February, ecologist Daisy Cadet spotted a yellow moth flying near a window at the south Wales home she shares with her mother ...

“Mothing is the new birding,” says Liti Haramaty, a researcher at Rutgers University and co-founder of National Moth Week.

Starting with a cocoon in a teacup, Bombyx mori is a moth that can no longer fly. A honey bee secretes wax from her abdomen and masticates it into the architectural marvel that is her lightweight ...

Originally registered as G-ANKN, this Tiger Moth had been in the U.S. since the early 1970s, spending much of that time with ...

A new species of moth has been seen on Alderney that wildlife experts believe is a first sighting for the Channel Islands. The Robust Tabby moth (Pandesma robusta) was recorded in October by the ...

Flying insects flap their wings when they fly, and silkworm moths are also known to flap their wings (called fanning) when they detect pheromones, even though they do not fly. As pheromone ...