In April 2019, an image supposedly showing a Japanese Giant Emperor Moth was passed around social media: Although this photograph has often been presented as if it documented a large species of moth, ...

Ohio’s moth fauna is incredibly diverse. At least 2,000 species have been documented, and scores of others await discovery. I once heard an expert on “micro-moths” say that if we could find all of ...

My Holy Grail of the Lepidoptera is a moth that outshines most of our more brilliant butterflies; the luna moth (Actias luna), a giant, pale-green Saturnid moth, the best known of the North American ...

Just in time to celebrate National Pollinator Week, a striking looking Polyphemus moth landed on Liz Costales’ porch in Glenwood. Because this moth has such colorful eyespots on her wings, the beauty ...

They look something like hummingbirds. They frequently hover like hummingbirds. And they feed from the same types of blossoms as hummingbirds. But they are not hummingbirds -- or birds at all. They ...