When I was 8 years old and in second grade my aunt bought me a kit to raise Monarch butterflies. I was then, and still am obsessed with butterflies. The kit came with the Monarch butterfly eggs, food ...

Moths won't mate without oak leaves. Two Harvard biologists have found that when the female polyphemus moth, receives the vapor from the oak through its antennae, it releases a chemical--a sex ...

Editor's Note: This article was provided by Inside Science. The original is here. (Inside Science) -- Andy Warren spent the summer of 2014 driving around the country with a pair of “magic spiders.” ...

PUKALANI – The state Department of Agriculture plans to release hundreds of “eating machines” next week to combat the thousands of acres infested with invasive Madagascar fireweed that is harmful to ...

Maine forestry officials are going to release parasitic flies as a preemptive strike against the winter moths that plague some of the state's forests. The Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation ...

An Asian-Australian moth becomes more sexually active under red light than under another colour of light or in the dark. Dim red light appears to stimulate chemical changes in the antennae of male ...

SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Forestry officials say they will set out parasitic flies in a Maine city to try to help control an invasive species of moth. The Maine Forest Service says the flies will ...