"I knew right then that we were doomed to have a major defoliating outbreak of spongy moths." Should we be actively ...

Have you ever opened your closet to find a hole in a shirt or your favorite pair of jeans? Or maybe you’ve noticed little ...

The methanol was later removed, and the extract was mixed with the larvae's food. 'If you compare the amount of hemp extract needed to kill 50 percent of the population to other synthetic ...

Tiny winged insects flying out of sinks are the stuff of nightmares. Why do you have drain flies, and how can you get rid of ...

Anna Purtell et al, Altered Heat-Avoidance Behavior Following Damage to the Extended Architecture of Mexican Jumping Bean Moth Larvae (Cydia saltitans), Journal of Insect Behavior (2024). DOI: 10. ...

Two clearwing moths appear to have hitched a ride when they were larvae, travelling 4,500 miles from a tropical jungle in Guyana, South America, before ending up in Port Talbot. Three months later ...

It is believed two clearwing moths accidentally hitched a ride when they were still larvae inside a photographer’s boot bag, travelling 4,500 miles from a tropical jungle in Guyana before ending ...

However, scientists report that queen black garden ants (Lasius niger) eat offspring in a seemingly unappetizing state: when the larvae are infected with a fungus 1. By doing so, the queens ...

It is native to Guyana, South America. The photographer had brought the moth's larvae with her in her suitcase. The larvae had hatched and pupated in the suitcase during the journey. When the ...

Despite being widely popular, moths, and their larvae in particular, are not always welcome in forests, parks and gardens. Some moth species constitute a real threat to forests when they appear en ...