“The life of a collector is obsession and passion,” said Maximus Gallery curator Linda Miller. The Collectors: A Life in Lepidoptera traces that passion for collecting and studying butterflies and ...

Lepidoptera are key pests that require control measures to avoid significant losses in many cropping systems worldwide. Failure to control key species can result in significant losses that impact the ...

Butterflies and moths, the Lepidoptera, are among the most beautiful of insects, familiar to almost everyone through thousands of different species from all around the world. But how they evolved has ...

Butterflies are some of the most beautiful insects. There are also many beautiful moths. They have three main body regions ...

Should you ever find yourself playing a trivia game on the topic of moths and butterflies, here are a few facts that might help. Collectively called Lepidoptera, moths and butterflies account for ...

The Museum’s Lepidoptera collection is one of the oldest, largest and certainly the most type rich. The collection contains 12.5 million pinned specimens and one million papered specimens housed in 80 ...

The earliest Lepidoptera appeared 250 million to 300 million years ago. By studying and comparing the genomes of different species, Wright explains, “we can find out how they have evolved and how they ...

LepIndex is essentially a computerised and updated version of the Natural History Museum's (NHM) card index archive to the scientific names of the living and fossil butterflies and moths (Lepidoptera) ...