Animals are disappearing from the planet at an alarming rate. Each day, an estimated 200 species go extinct. Some of the ...

Sometimes, a creature unknown to science hides in plain sight without anyone realizing its significance. In the case of one ...

A moth specimen collected roughly 170 years ago by the famed naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace sat neglected in museum storage for more than a century and a half before researchers finally identified ...

European Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths), with a currently known inventory of approximately 11,000 species, are generally considered well-researched. However, a new genus and species from the ...

Arctesthes avatar moth, which won nearly half of the votes, was discovered in 2012 and is critically endangered ...

First, it was the spotted lanternfly wreaking havoc and killing trees and shrubbery in Bucks County and throughout Pennsylvania. Now, there's another invasive species chewing through vast numbers of ...

The Hollyhock Seed Moth is sighted at Delapre Abbey for the first time since 1940.

By Ryan Truscott A strikingly handsome emerald-green moth, lost to science for nearly one-and-a-half centuries, has been ...