If you’ve noticed threadbare patches appearing on your carpets, or the odd, small-winged insect fluttering, you might be dealing with carpet moths. Similar to clothes moths that eat away at your wool ...

Farmers have recorded almost 23,000 moths in the first year of a monitoring programme run by the National Biodiversity Data ...

More than 180,000 species of Lepidoptera have been identified, of which only about 9 or 10 percent are butterflies. Moths are second in number of species only to the order Coleoptera, the beetles.

The onset of summer and warmer weather can mean the unfortunate rise of carpet moth infestations, but pest experts have revealed how to get rid of carpet moths and prevent them, too. Knowing how to ...

Ohio’s moth fauna is incredibly diverse. At least 2,000 species have been documented, and scores of others await discovery. I once heard an expert on “micro-moths” say that if we could find all of ...

Are you noticing more moths than usual this summer? One too many flying around your porch light or flitting around your windows or TV at night? You’d be right: There are more moths lately. And don’t ...

Everyone loves butterflies. The sun-loving insects are often festively colored and easily seen as they visit flowers. About 140 butterfly species have been found in Ohio, which may seem like a lot.

Moths and butterflies collectively belong to a big taxonomic group called Lepidoptera. That name means “scale-wing”, referring to the tiny scales that cover the wings of most of these species. The ...

Customs officials said they had warded off a threat to the nation’s agriculture and natural habitats by intercepting the moth before it could take hold in the wild. By Alex Traub Customs agents at ...