The received wisdom has long held that as well as pretty and rapacious, ragwort is also dangerous, given it contains ...

This adult luna moth has a very penetrating gaze. These moths are quite large, and their caterpillars produce silk shortly before the pupa stage of their development. Get a closer view of the image ...

However, there is no evidence of any Death’s-head Hawk Moth caterpillar ever surviving the winter this far north of the insect’s home range. Two other usual things about the species is that ...

If it seems like every spongy moth caterpillar in the Highlands hatched this week, it’s because they probably did. “That was a boom day,” said Clive Jones of the Cary Institute in Millbrook ...

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Know your elephant hawk moth from your painted lady butterfly. Discover more about the world of butterflies, moths and their caterpillars, and what you can do to give them a helping hand.

Butterfly and moth wings can be stunningly beautiful ... on their posterior and in some it looks like a head with antennae - so that would distract a predator to a non-vital part of the body'. Many ...

Tortrix moths attack both fruit plants and ornamental plants. They are nocturnal, whereas fruitlet-mining moths are active by day – they are dark brown with a 10mm wingspan and a pale, metallic ...

Butterflies and moths belong to a diverse group of insects known as Lepidoptera, Latin for "scaly wing." They have similar lifecycles, progressing from egg to caterpillar to pupae before ...

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Caterpillar stock has powered higher as thewell-oiled company managed through a difficult economic environment. Now, headwinds are turning into tailwinds, and the shares can build on their ...