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Editor's Note: This article was provided by Inside Science. The original is here. (Inside Science) -- Andy Warren spent the summer of 2014 driving around the country with a pair of “magic spiders.” ...

A small amount of a perfume component -- nonanal -- added to a traditional blend of sex pheromones captures the attention of male fall armyworm moths looking for a good time. North Carolina State ...

Ohio’s moth fauna is incredibly diverse. At least 2,000 species have been documented, and scores of others await discovery. I once heard an expert on “micro-moths” say that if we could find all of ...

Everyone loves a butterfly but few are as enchanted with the lowly moth. Yet these muted insects lost in the shadows may have more smarts. Eons ago they quit the daytime and found it safer to chase ...

You might call it a web of deceit: the webs made by one spider exploit a visual effect to entice nocturnal insects, which then become stuck in the silky threads. Such “lure and trap” dual-function ...

Enticing new lures developed by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists could make backyard gardens, fruit orchards and crop fields places of no return for pesky caterpillars. Enticing new ...

North Carolina State University researchers have shown that adding a small amount of a chemical used in perfumes – nonanal – to a two-chemical combination of other sex pheromones helped increase the ...