Polyphemus moths call an hour before and after midnight, and if a female remains unmated, she will call again just before dawn. Using their large feathery antenna, male silk moths can detect ...

Moths won't mate without oak leaves. Two Harvard biologists have found that when the female polyphemus moth, receives the vapor from the oak through its antennae, it releases a chemical--a sex ...

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 ...

Just in time to celebrate National Pollinator Week, a striking looking Polyphemus moth landed on Liz Costales’ porch in Glenwood. Because this moth has such colorful eyespots on her wings, the beauty ...

As with butterflies, moths have a high season late in summer, and those of you out and about at night might see any number of the beauties around your lights and in other night-lit areas. You also ...

I’m a little ashamed to admit I probably didn’t pay as much attention in my high school English classes as I should have. Literary classics didn’t compete well for my interests when compared to animal ...