On your honkers – or better still, your hands and knees – is sometimes the only way to feel and understand a landscape. As a kid, I had seen the cratered expanse of the Burren in Clare from a ...

A moth whose caterpillars can destroy the leaves of box plants is likely to become more common in north-east England, experts ...

Lane Kirstein has entered the Arachnids category with an image of a mother wolf spider hunting in Saint Simons Island, ...

Food moths are pests that tend to settle in kitchen cupboards. Unfortunately, getting rid of them is often a lengthy and ...

From a pink dolphin slinking through the Amazon's waters to the sight of monarch butterflies filling the skies of Mexico, ...

Trillions of insects move around the globe each year. Scientists are working on new ways to map those long-distance journeys.

Rustle. Flash of red. I shuddered walking down Hillhouse Ave, recalling that battlefield, that slaughterhouse. My fingers ...

North American moths represent about 12,000 types of moths. In comparison, there are about 825 species of North American butterflies. The moths (mostly nocturnal) and butterflies (mostly diurnal) ...

The Burren is home to 27 species of moths and butterflies found nowhere else in the country, along with all of our rarest butterflies and half our rarest moths Unique insects aren’t in the Burren for ...

To increase backyard insect biodiversity, it's time to rethink cutting back dead standing plants and other yard work. It will ...

Leanna Fernandez, 25, is one of ten members of the new panel, an initiative of Butterfly Conservation that the charity hopes will inspire a new generation of environmentalists. Fernandez has pursued ...