Moths are anything but ordinary. Around the world, these insects have evolved colors, shapes, and behaviors that make them look unreal.

June 7 (UPI) --Scientists have identified four new species of plume moths in the Bahamas. Plume moths are a family of small moths with uniquely modified wings. Plume moths are named for the fringelike ...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Deborah Matthews hunts for plume moths in darkness, waiting for the halo of her headlamp to catch a brief flicker. About the size of mosquitoes, the delicate, feathery moths fly ...

The Plum Fruit Moth (Cydia funebrana) is a pest of plum, cherry, apple, peach, apricot and walnut. Its larvae bore into and feed on the fruit. Surveys are conducted because of the presence of ...

Deborah Matthews displays Bahamas plume moth specimens from the Florida Museum's collection. The moths were collected in an effort to document every species of butterfly and moth on the archipelago, a ...

Two abundant herbivorous insects, Philaenus spumarius, the meadow spittlebug (Homoptera: Cercopidae), and Platyptilia williamsii, the calendula plume moth (Lepidoptera: Pterophoridae) both spend their ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract 1. To maximize the probability of rapid contact with a female's pheromone plume, the trajectories of male foraging flights might be expected ...

Male moths locate females by navigating along the latter's pheromone (odor) plume. Two strategies are involved: males must find the outer envelope of the pheromone plume, and then head upwind. Can ...