"Butterflies of the night" is what Texas naturalist John Tveten called moths, and I've never heard a better description. Unfortunately, most people pay scant attention to moths as they flit around ...

Answer: Your pretty insect is a moth. It's the adult of the famous woolly bear caterpillar. Legend has it that the larva of this moth can help predict the weather. The myth is that the reddish bands ...

Comet moths lead tragically short lives, but leave behind an incredible legacy until it's time for them to die off.

A big green caterpillar almost as thick as your little finger was munching away on an oak leaf in one of several displays on moths and their caterpillars at the Butterfly Society of Virginia’s meeting ...

Moths are those annoying brown things that whizz around your kitchen light and chew holes through your clothes, right? Well, yes, but that is really not the half of it! They can also be colourful, ...

I was gardening with a friend in Virginia Beach this week when she mentioned her plans to remove an old coral honeysuckle. After explaining how it hadn’t bloomed in years, the only thing that saved it ...

DEAR JOAN: We found this dead caterpillar in our driveway. It sure looks like a luna moth, but I was always under the impression that luna moths were found in the East Coast rather than west of the ...

Moths typically get a bad rap. Their young have voracious appetites and are targeted for eradication because they eat our lawns and vegetable crops. But there are some that are actually pretty and may ...

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Imaginary moths by Loren Schmidt and Katie Rose Pipkin (all images courtesy the artists) A selection of imaginary moths by Loren Schmidt and Katie Rose Pipkin Work on the bot began last month as a ...

I AM writing on behalf of Butterfly Conservation (Northern Ireland branch) in response to an article in connection with moths (News, August 9). A number of our members have contacted me expressing ...