A mention of silk moths may conjure up images of China where, for millennia, fibers teased from cocoons of domesticated silk moths (Bombyx mori) have been used to manufacture silk, and the producers, ...

One moth family in Europe, the Hepialus, was known as "ghost" moths, for the pale white males would gather and flutter up and down to attract the females, especially in wide open areas above fields or ...

Who doesn’t get excited upon finding a huge moth? While we don’t have the diversity of butterflies and moths found in the tropics, we do have some remarkable species up here. The one I found the other ...