A photographer visited Guyana and unknowingly carried two stowaways home with her to Wales. Several months later, her daughter noticed a colorful moth near a window. It turned out to be a new species ...

A polyphemus moth on a branch. This species of giant silk moth is the second largest in North America and is lives from Canada all the way down to Mexico. A polyphemus moth on a branch.

Prosecutors said the Montanan illegally used tissue from a sheep from Central Asia and the testicles from a bighorn sheep to ...

But just how miniature do you need to be to qualify as a micro-moth? The scientific name for butterflies and moths is Lepidoptera. Museum curator David Lees specialises in the smallest species, ...

The family Saturniidae includes the largest species of moths which generally ... But this one is truly spectacular.

Whether $5 or $50, every contribution counts. A species of moth has been discovered inside a home in Wales, thousands of miles from its native habitat. It is believed two clearwing moths ...

A remarkable discovery has been made in a Welsh home where a new species of moth, native to South America, was found thousands of miles from its usual habitat. It's believed that the two clearwing ...

A new species of moth has been discovered inside a home in Wales, thousands of kilometres from its native habitat in South America. It is believed two clearwing moths accidentally hitched a ride ...

Your own living room is probably the last place you’d expect to find a brand-new species of bug, but that’s exactly what happened to one ecologist from Wales, UK – except what she found ...

A new species of moth has been discovered in a home in Wales after a pair of insects accidentally hitched a ride in a photographer’s boot bag, surviving a 4,500-mile trip across the globe.

Ms Cadet said: "When I first saw them, I knew they were clearwings and assumed it was a UK species, like the six-banded clearwing." She added: "Finding a new moth was exciting enough, but at this ...