Think quick and name a type of butterfly. Monarch, swallowtail, painted lady, blue and hairstreak probably come to mind. Now ...

Colorado State University estimates there are 750 species of butterflies in the U.S. and 3,000 species of moths. The population of butterflies and moths is dropping due to habitat loss, pollution ...

There isn’t a big difference between a butterfly and a moth, but we all know which one out of the two gets more love in the world. Butterflies are bright, colourful and pretty – you can get ...

With so many similarities between moths and butterflies, find out what to look for to tell them apart. Here in the UK we tend to think of butterflies as colourful insects flitting about country ...

Butterfly and moth wings can be stunningly beautiful. More importantly, some have colourful and elaborate patterns that serve as a defence against hungry predators. There are many butterfly and moth ...

THIS is a book comprising descriptions of the larger British lepidoptera (macro-lepidoptera), with coloured figures of them all in their perfect state, and many in the larval stage. There are also ...

Ben McCarthy, the trust’s head of nature conservation and restoration ecology, described the year’s weather as swinging from ...

Newly discovered fossils show that moths and butterflies have been on the planet for at least 200 million years. Scientists found fossilised butterfly scales the size of a speck of dust inside ...

hoverflies and butterflies. The scientists found that while bumblebees and honeybees are critically important, they tended to target the most prolific nectar and pollen sources. Not so with moths.

Can you spot any butterflies or moths in your garden? Butterflies are one of the most graceful insects. Their thin delicate wings are covered with tiny scales which give them their beautiful colours.

Butterfly and moth wing color variations, long attributed to the cortex gene, are actually controlled by a microRNA, mir-193, which represses pigmentation genes. This discovery, conserved across ...

Cabbage moth eggs are also similar to that of cabbage white butterfly, with pale yellow, oval eggs. Cabbage moth larvae ...