One August evening last summer, I was in Adams County in southern Ohio shining specialized lights on white sheets with some expert lepidopterists. We were trapping moths deep in the midst of the ...

California agricultural officials will release hundreds of tiny, stinger-less wasps this month to combat the fruit- and leaf-eating light-brown apple moth, in a move to find alternatives to aerial ...

A few months ago, I had the chance to take a bush walk with one of the most respected trail guides in South Africa, Stefan Winterboer. After showing us where a hippo had marked its territory by ...

Cleaning out a dark and unused wardrobe, Megan Gallagher found "black stalactites" hanging from the roof. "Things [were] crawling in the carpet and flying in the corner of the cupboard," Ms Gallagher ...

You can be be living in a country for decades, and then one day you find out: a chunky moth that looks just like a wasp lives there too. This stripy specimen was discovered in a nature reserve in ...

Clearwing moths may not look all that dangerous, despite having largely see-through wings like bees and wasps. But some fly like fierce insects best left well alone. Four clearwing species from ...