moths

In an oddly poetic act, moths will on occasion drink the tears from the eyes of a sleeping bird. Sounds harmless,…

Every spring in Australia, millions of bogong moths emerge from their pupae and embark on a 600-mile trip to the…

After becoming President, Barack Obama had a number of species named in his honor. Donald Trump, however, has…

We’re living in a brave new future here folks, and that means that moths can now drive tiny robot cars that are…

As Portugal and France snoozed their way through the final match yesterday at Euro 2016, thousands of Silver Y moths…

Do a quick scan of the journal Applied Physics Letters today, and you’ll find that researchers from Belarus and…

Planes have long been used to drop pesticides and herbicides quickly and evenly over cropland, but the newest drone…

The European silver Y moth (pictured above) can sense delicate shifts in turbulence as they migrate from northern…

Some species of moth can produce ultrasonic emissions that confuse echolocating bats, and they do it by rubbing…

What is this material? It looks like a very tacky version of astroturf, or an arrangement of flower petals. But can…

Inspiration lies in the strangest of places—and for researchers at the Agency for Science, Technology & Research in…

Once a week, three-toed sloths slowly descend from the leafy forest canopy to poop on the ground. Why do these…

Above: A moth, shown here deploying its "relatively large protuberances." Just imagine those things wriggling their…

Nature photographer Kjell Bloch Sandved has amassed a massive collection of butterfly and moth wings, capturing a…

It's incredible, really. It features a central spire and an encircling picket-fence that's been reinforced by…

In what has to be one of the most brilliant self-defense mechanisms ever developed, several species of tropical…

As anyone with a dog whistle knows, the range of human hearing is hardly anything to get excited about. But when it…

Photographer Steve Irvine captured the ephemeral movements of moths drawn to a floodlight. He took a 20-second…

Here's an optical illusion that can confuse pretty much any creature with eyes. It's a simple trick caused by a…

And with good reason. Sure, this Atlas moth (Attacus atlas) may be looming in the foreground of the photograph, but…