said Po-An Lin. Day-active insects like monarch butterflies, have evolved to become more picky eaters, whereas night-active species, like the Polyphemus moth, are less picky.

If butterflies are the beauty queens of the insect world, moths are their drab and pesky cousins—or so you may have thought. It’s true that most moths are nocturnal, so you’re more likely to ...

Scientists have described a nocturnal moth's unique evolutionary trick in replicating the appearance of 3D leaf, with potential applications for the development of advanced camouflage materials ...

One man is on a mission to bring Australia’s second-largest moth back to Darwin. The atlas moth, a true marvel and emblematic species of the Northern Territory, remains a rare sight known only to a ...

Pictured above is Ignacio Castellanos’s image of a male Polyphemus moth (Antheraea polyphemus) in an oak forest in Huasca, Mexico. These moths measure more than 15 centimetres from wing tip to ...

The scientists then fed these high-toxin leaves to caterpillars of the polyphemus moth, the second-largest moth species in North America. Fewer than 18 percent of the native moth caterpillars ...

Joseph James Bowden, an arthropod ecologist from eastern Canada — a researcher mostly working with Arctic insects and spiders — identified it as an Antheraea polyphemus, commonly known as the ...

This article presents the development of a new bioinspired antenna based on the structural characteristics of the antennae of the Antheraea Polyphemus moth. The bioinspired parameters of the proposed ...

Last year, the unusually cool, wet spring produced an abundance of flowers and lower temperatures along the Front Range, creating a recipe for a long proliferation of miller moths. But that is not ...

DENVER — Miller moth season has arrived in Colorado. The insects' yearlong migration pattern takes them westward over Colorado's Front Range, between stops on the eastern plains and the ...

Our targets are our home’s clothes moths: My spouse and I lay pheromone-laced traps in the closets, living room, and bedrooms; we—and our two cats—go on alert for any stray speckle of brown ...

Born Margaret Wilson to a working-class family in Gisborne, New Zealand, she changed her name to Moth, dyed her blonde hair jet-black, and routinely applied enough Goth eyeliner to cosplay a young ...