Late summer brings an amazing insect to our flower gardens across the United States. It is the sphinx moth, also called the hawk moth or hummingbird moth. No matter what you call it, this is a large ...

Appearance: Off-white to tan and light brown. When perched, its stick-like wings protrude at right angles from its narrow body, resembling a toy glider to the human eye and dried vegetation to ...

As a caterpillar, the invasive spongy moth consumes as much leaf tissue as it can, as fast as it can, threatening the lives of whole forests across the upper Midwest. But Illinois continues to stand ...

Now this bug is winged and woke. The gypsy moth’s name has been scrapped by the country’s leading insect identification group because its scientists say the moniker is an ethnic slur considered ...

Scientists who discovered a new species of alpine moth have used their findings to crack a 180-year-old mystery around the identification of another species of the insect. Two researchers from ...

Can you identify this insect? It is photographed perched on a lemon verbena plant in our garden. Feargal O’Neill, Co Galway I can: it is an Ichneumon wasp – a parasitic insect that lays eggs in the ...

Populations of large moths seemed to be declining in a recent survey of the New Hope Creek Corridor. At the upcoming Moth Night, David Bradley of the Durham County Open Space Program said he is ...