It's not a butterfly — it's a moth! Learn how to identify the promethea silk moth, a beautifully patterned backyard visitor.

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An invasive pest that chows down on boxwood plants is expanding its range. The quarantine area is being extended to include ...

Per the study, China’s oldest known domestic cat lived in the central province of Shaanxi between 706 and 883, during the ...

A simple neural change alters mating preferences in male butterflies, aiding rapid behavioral evolution, Nicholas VanKuren ...

London, have discovered that a long-overlooked moth specimen in the Museum's collection was in fact collected by explorer and ...

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The pest's adult male moth has forewings of a shaded grey and brown colour with triangular white spots at the tip ... on each body segment and feeds on young leaves, whorl, tassels, silk and cobs. It ...

The caterpillars grow to about 4cm in length and pupate in a silk cocoon in ... when they become adult moths, they loose their flair. “The adult moth will be white or greyish with a brown ...

The white ones I chose are thick enough that you ... Mulberry silk is spun from the cocoon of a domesticated silk moth, Bombyx mori, which, as Katy Kelleher writes in The Ugly History of Beautiful ...