There isn’t a big difference between a butterfly and a moth, but we all know which one out of the two gets more love in the world. Butterflies are bright, colourful and pretty – you can get ...

Moths can hear sounds emitted by plants and rely on them to choose on which plant to lay their eggs, according to a new study. The analysis, ‘Female Moths Incorporate Plant Acoustic Emissions into ...

By Gennaro Tomma You may not want to sit next to a crying baby on an airplane. Apparently, moths feel the same way about plants. When some plants are dehydrated or under some other form of stress ...

Instead, a previously ignored microRNA (miRNA), is the actual color switch. Lepidopterans (butterflies and moths) exhibit a splendid diversity of wing colour patterns, and many species display ...

The Geometroidea are the superfamily of geometrid moths in the Lepidoptera. It includes the families Geometridae, Uraniidae, Epicopeiidae, Sematuridae, and the recently established family ...