"The adults are active at night, so it was likely waiting for dusk before taking flight." ...

Experience BugTopia at Zoo Miami starting this Saturday! See larger-than-life insects and learn how bugs help balance nature.

The only guarantee in life is death. It comes for us all, one way or another, but some creatures seem to get the cruelest end of the stick. Atlas moths have some of the most stunningly decorated wings ...

June means warm nights, summer solstice, fireflies … and the seldom-seen giant silk moths. Giant silk moths are members of the family Saturniidae and include some of the most spectacular native large ...

My first sighting of a cecropia moth was from a boat. It was a sunny morning and I was paddling along the lakeshore, expecting to see familiar birds. Instead, my eye was drawn to a large brown spot ...

On a pleasant Sunday morning one June, my family and I awoke to find a gigantic moth on the outside of our kitchen window. It ...

For one student of entomology, a routine moment outside their workplace turned into a memorable wildlife sighting. The poster ...

Late fall and early winter are the best times of year to spot giant silk moth cocoons in New England. Perhaps you’ve seen these creatures in the summer, fluttering by your porch light in the evening ...

Insects usually get overlooked, but a few species go so far off the biological script that it's hard not to be curious. Some have eyes perched on stalks, legs used as display tools, or bodies so ...