Often, the major, showy stars of nature get all the “press.” This article will feature a diminutive little creature as well as a factoid on one of the most known species in our area of Texas. Let’s ...

4 June 1918 Most of these foliage-devourers are the larvae of geometer moths of various kinds, sometimes called loopers Caterpillars are doing their best to eat up the woods. On some of the sycamores, ...

The outlook for blueberries in Southcentral Alaska this year? "It's quite bleak," says Michael Rasy, statewide integrated pest management technician for the University of Alaska Fairbanks Cooperative ...

An unknown moth, collected from Portugal 22 years ago, has finally been named and placed in the tree of life thanks to the efforts of an international team of scientists. The moth was unambiguously ...

Unlike most caterpillars, inchworms are missing several pairs of legs in the middle of their bodies. So instead of crawling ...

The Snowy Geometer Moth (Eugonobapta nivosaria), of the family Geometridae, has been spotted in the foothills of the Pachaimalai near Thuraiyur recently. Q. Ashoka Chakkaravarthy, Wildlife Biologist ...

A new moth species has been found at the foothills of the Pachamalai hills reserve forest near Thuraiyur in Trichy district. <p>Its wingspan is 21-33 mm. The adult moth is on the wing from April or ...

Authorities in an eastern China city have declared war … on a wriggling mass of caterpillars that is threatening to blanket the neighbourhood. Millions of the geometer moth larvae have been spotted ...