The same gene that enables tropical butterflies to mimic each other's bright and colorful patterning also caused British moths to turn black amid the grime of the industrial revolution, researchers ...

A number of colourful moths with names to match have been documented at Loch Leven National Nature Reserve. Image caption, A number of colourful moths with names to match have been documented at Loch ...

But when I flicked through James Loewen's British Moths this week I was blown away by the beauty and variety of nature's forgotten insects. This guide to our 350 commonest species — out of 2,500 — ...

Tiny light-scattering structures that give today’s butterflies and moths their brilliant hues date back to the days of the dinosaurs. Fossilized mothlike insects from the Jurassic Period bear textured ...

These two colorful royal walnut moths were caught most likely in the act of mating by Gretchen Tecson in College Park in Virginia Beach. Tecson is Nancy Speisser’s stepdaughter and Speisser sent the ...

When Scottish creepy crawlies make the news, it is usually because people are being menaced by plagues of biting midges or clegs. But Scotland's bug life extends to a wide variety of colourful, and ...