I talked about your question with my friend Allan Felsot. He’s an insect scientist at Washington State University. He told me cocoons are mostly silk. But they’re usually made by moths. A butterfly ...

“The life of a collector is obsession and passion,” said Maximus Gallery curator Linda Miller. The Collectors: A Life in Lepidoptera traces that passion for collecting and studying butterflies and ...

Federal customs officers were sifting through luggage at Detroit Metropolitan Airport last fall when they stumbled upon seed pods with little holes in them in one passenger’s bag. Inside, they found ...

"I have a little brown cocoon of an idea that may possibly expand into a magnificent moth of fulfilment," − Lucy Maud Montgomery Moths, the lesser-known relatives of butterflies, represent one of the ...

Butterflies are some of the most beautiful insects. There are also many beautiful moths. They have three main body regions ...

FOSTER – State forester Alana Russell pulled off Hartford Pike on a gray afternoon this month to investigate a holiday intruder’s fluttering courtship occurring in the adjacent woods. That the air ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Michigan's largest moth is also North America's largest moth and it can be found as far north as the lower providences of Canada and as far south as Florida. The hyalophora ...