Britain's moths are feeling the pinch – threatened on one side by climate change and on the other by habitat loss and harmful farming methods. A new study gives the most comprehensive picture yet of ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Three moth species have disappeared from the ...

An insect installation at Harper Adams University will add records to a survey of British moths which has been running every night since 1968. Did you know with a Plus subscription to Shropshire Star ...

Moths are often unfairly thought of as butterflies' drab cousins. But there are lots of wonderfully colourful species and plenty with dramatic patterns, including in the UK. Whether you are a seasoned ...

Strensall Common near York is the only place in England where the dark-bordered beauty moth is found The Ministry of Defence (MoD) is trying to save a rare British moth from extinction while also ...

The decline in industrial melanism over the last quarter century constitutes an exceptional case of an evolutionary change, varying in both time and space, and between species. In Biston betularia and ...

An army of tiny, parasitic wasps will be unleashed inside the English stately home where Anne Boleyn was born, in order to hunt out and eradicate moths that threaten the mansion’s furniture and ...

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

entmain copy Purchased from the Thompson Endowment. Pyralid and crambid moths are amongst the most studied and readily encountered moths in the British Isles, and include some very attractive species.