and freeze unwashable items for at least 24 hours to kill off any larvae. For a stubborn moth infestation in a house, ...

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 ...

Already threatened by a deadly blight disease and several lesser evils, America’s top-selling shrub is now in the crosshairs ...

A pair of musicians wrote a concept album inspired by moths—and found that humans have more in common with the insects than ...

A zoologist couple from Chattogram, Md Jahir Rayhan and Sayema Jahan, determined the genus and the species of a newly discovered moth and came up with a name for it — Paraxenoacria spinosa ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Some species are not passive defenders, and their caterpillar larvae are armed with stinging or irritating hairs/setae to discourage predators. Three notable, native silk moths found in our region ...

Another silk moth defensive behavior is “playing dead” by dropping to the ground, folding its wings and curling its abdomen upward while lying on its back. Some species are not passive defenders, and ...