Moths Caught Drinking Tears From the Eyes of Sleeping Birds
In an oddly poetic act, moths will on occasion drink the tears from the eyes of a sleeping bird. Sounds harmless, but…
Bogong Moths Are First Insect Known to Use Earth’s Magnetism to Navigate at Night
Every spring in Australia, millions of bogong moths emerge from their pupae and embark on a 600-mile trip to the…
Moth With Scaly Head and Weird Dick Named in Honor of Donald Trump
After becoming President, Barack Obama had a number of species named in his honor. Donald Trump, however, has managed…
Watch This Moth Drive a Scent-Controlled Robot Car Because Anything Is Possible in 2017
We’re living in a brave new future here folks, and that means that moths can now drive tiny robot cars that are…
Why Hordes of Moths Crashed the Euro 2016 Final
As Portugal and France snoozed their way through the final match yesterday at Euro 2016, thousands of Silver Y moths…
These Sugar-Based Anti-Reflective Fake Moth Eyeballs Are Not for Eating
Do a quick scan of the journal Applied Physics Letters today, and you’ll find that researchers from Belarus and France…
Rejoice, America! The Federal Government Has Built You a Moth Drone
Planes have long been used to drop pesticides and herbicides quickly and evenly over cropland, but the newest drone to…
Turbulence May Help Moths Figure Out Which Way They're Flying
The European silver Y moth (pictured above) can sense delicate shifts in turbulence as they migrate from northern…
Moths Rub Their Genitals Together to Jam Bat Sonar
Some species of moth can produce ultrasonic emissions that confuse echolocating bats, and they do it by rubbing their…
What The Heck Is This?
What is this material? It looks like a very tacky version of astroturf, or an arrangement of flower petals. But can you…
How a Moth's Eye Could Help Improve the Efficiency of Solar Cells
Inspiration lies in the strangest of places—and for researchers at the Agency for Science, Technology & Research in…
The Strange Symbiosis Between Sloths and Moths
Once a week, three-toed sloths slowly descend from the leafy forest canopy to poop on the ground. Why do these sluggish…
Happy Monday. Have some moth "protuberances."
Above: A moth, shown here deploying its "relatively large protuberances." Just imagine those things wriggling their way…
The entire alphabet, photographed on butterfly wings
Nature photographer Kjell Bloch Sandved has amassed a massive collection of butterfly and moth wings, capturing a host…
We have absolutely no clue what built this crazy-complex structure
It's incredible, really. It features a central spire and an encircling picket-fence that's been reinforced by…
Tropical Moths Use Ultrasonic Crotch Blasts to Confuse Attacking Bats
In what has to be one of the most brilliant self-defense mechanisms ever developed, several species of tropical moths…
Which animal can hear the highest-pitched sounds?
As anyone with a dog whistle knows, the range of human hearing is hardly anything to get excited about. But when it…
This incredible photograph captures the swirling, twirling trails left by dozens of swarming moths
Photographer Steve Irvine captured the ephemeral movements of moths drawn to a floodlight. He took a 20-second exposure…
This optical illusion can trick the eyes of almost all living things
Here's an optical illusion that can confuse pretty much any creature with eyes. It's a simple trick caused by a quirk…
David Attenborough looks tiny beside the world's biggest moth
And with good reason. Sure, this Atlas moth (Attacus atlas) may be looming in the foreground of the photograph, but at…