Entomologist Floyd Shockley drove across the country to pick up a premier butterfly and moth collection Jack Tamisiea The new acquisition contains butterflies and moths from around the world and ...

MILLERSBURG – Encased in a series of cabinets, dozens of moth and butterfly displays sit in neatly arranged frames and mounts, waiting to be unearthed for its next showing. More than 18,000 of the ...

View part of James Nebel’s butterfly and moth collection at the Budding Rose Gallery, 510 S. Whitman Ave. in Rosalia, Wash., during the town’s fall festival on Saturday. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 3 ...

While digitising the Museum's micromoth collection, a leopard moth collected by Sir Richard Owen - the founder of the Museum - was rediscovered. This is the only insect in the Museum's entire ...

Hawk moths are known for being some of the largest night fliers in the insect world. With wingspans of more than four inches, many species are big enough to comfortably fill the palm of your hand.

Historically, insect collecting was (and still is) a widespread and very popular educational hobby. But the earliest insect collectors weren't professional entomologists -- they were hobbyists. Herman ...

In two recent studies, scientists from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin have identified and described 40 previously unknown moth species from the Philippines. The newly discovered species belong to ...

AT FIRST sight the peppered moth is a rather unprepossessing creature. Surrounded by its more brightly coloured relatives in a moth collection, drab old Biston betularia scarcely catches the eye. Yet ...