FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. -- An insect found on the side of a Fayetteville, Arkansas, big-box store has been identified as the species Polystoechotes punctata, which belongs to a family of insects that ...

My older son came home from college wanting to set up a moth trap. He goes to school on the Olympic Penninsula, where the coastal temperate rainforests house diverse and numerous nocturnal moths and ...

The discovery that a Jurassic moth lacewing mimicked a co-occurring fossil lichen to promote survival predates modern lichen-insect associations by 165 million years Scientists have uncovered the ...

A new study shows that herbivores and their predators have evolved efficient strategies to deal with toxic plant secondary metabolites. Caterpillars of the diamondback moth deploy a specific gut ...

A giant lacewing, not seen in eastern North America in more than 50 years, was discovered outside a Walmart in Arkansas, officials say. Penn State University For nearly 10 years, an insect discovered ...

You can get pretty much anything at Walmart these days — milk, bread, toys, furniture, electronics and, it turns out, dinosaur-era insects thought to have disappeared from large swaths of North ...

Chemical defenses of plants not only affect the growth and development of herbivores, but also, indirectly, the next consumers in the food chain. A new study from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical ...

Amid hundreds of insects attracted to Tom Preney’s backyard by a flood light on a July night was a tiny moth-like one with spotted, translucent wings. Fortunately it caught his eye because that ...

Chemical defenses of plants not only affect the growth and development of herbivores, but also, indirectly, the next consumers in the food chain. A new study shows that herbivores and their predators ...

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Scientists have uncovered the earliest known evidence of an insect mimicking a lichen as a survival strategy. Scientists have uncovered the earliest known evidence of an insect mimicking a lichen as a ...