An international research team set out to test whether diurnal moths—less threatened by echolocating bats—would have reduced tympanal organs. These specialized hearing organs allow moths to detect the high frequency calls ...
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You stand in the driveway and stomp your foot like a petulant 3-year-old, not once but twice in vain pursuit of an elusive Asian insect, then look up and see hundreds of its kin stand proboscis-deep in tree bark, seemingly ...
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Imagine traveling to a new and distant place using only your senses to guide you.
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A new study led by the University of Helsinki examined how climate change is altering moth communities across Finland. The researchers wanted to understand whether communities are undergoing thermophilization—a shift towards ...
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Aug 12, 2025
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A beautiful, colorful moth, previously mistaken for over a century, has been revealed as a new species by entomologist Dr. Peter Huemer of the Tyrolean State Museum Ferdinandeum in Innsbruck, Austria.
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Some jumping spiders look so much like wasps that scientists named them for the predatory insects.
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A world-first study reveals an acoustic interaction between plants and insects. In the study, the team focused on female moths and found that they make a critical decision—where to lay their eggs—based on sounds emitted ...
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Age is just a number, or is it? A new study by UTEP researchers shows that adult moths are more vulnerable to attack than when they are young.
Plants & Animals
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A species of Australian moth travels up to a thousand kilometers every summer using the stars to navigate, scientists said Wednesday, the first time this talent has been discovered in an invertebrate covering vast distances.
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It's a warm January summer afternoon, and as I traverse the flower-strewn western slopes of Australia's highest mountain, Mount Kosciuszko, I am on the lookout for a telltale river of boulders that winds its way down into ...
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A moth is an insect closely related to the butterfly, both being of the order Lepidoptera. Moths form the majority of this order; there are thought to be 150,000 to 250,000 different species of moth (about ten times the number of species of butterfly), with thousands of species yet to be described. Most species of moth are nocturnal, but there are crepuscular and diurnal species.
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