An international research team set out to test whether diurnal moths—less threatened by echolocating bats—would have reduced tympanal organs. These specialized hearing organs allow moths to detect the ...

Yash Sondhi went looking for differences in color vision between two closely related moths, one of which is active at night and the other during the day. Instead, he found differences in the way they ...

Farmers have recorded almost 23,000 moths in the first year of a monitoring programme run by the National Biodiversity Data ...

Moths have long been seen as the annoying creatures that leave holes in your clothes. But new research suggests that those pesky insects have been badly misjudged. A new study, published this week in ...

Scientists have made a surprising discovery: day-active moths have larger hearing organs than their nocturnal relatives, despite facing less threat from echolocating bats. The international research ...

How does one species become two? A new study shows what happens when individuals of a moth species become separated in time. How does one species become two? If you're a biologist, that's a loaded ...