One August evening last summer, I was in Adams County in southern Ohio shining specialized lights on white sheets with some expert lepidopterists. We were trapping moths deep in the midst of the ...

The scarlet-bodied wasp moth does not damage garden or landscape plants. And, despite its wasp-like appearance, it's a moth and cannot sting people. (Janice Wynn) Q: I have been seeing this beautiful ...

A rare moth - which looks like a wasp - becomes the 10,000th species recorded at UK nature reserve Wicken Fen.

A few months ago, I had the chance to take a bush walk with one of the most respected trail guides in South Africa, Stefan Winterboer. After showing us where a hippo had marked its territory by ...

Millions of microscopic wasps are scheduled to be released in the coming months in Bay Area counties, including San Francisco, under a state-led plan to control the light brown apple moth. Plans to ...

This stripy specimen was discovered in a nature reserve in Cambridgeshire this summer. The six-belted clearwing, to use its ...

The Wicken Fen nature reserve became the first in UK to record 10,000 species, after finding a unique moth that imitates a ...

Clearwing moths may not look all that dangerous, despite having largely see-through wings like bees and wasps. But some fly like fierce insects best left well alone. Four clearwing species from ...

An army of tiny, parasitic wasps will be unleashed inside the English stately home where Anne Boleyn was born, in order to hunt out and eradicate moths that threaten the mansion’s furniture and ...

Empty of human visitors because of lockdowns, the darkened rooms of Britain’s historic buildings have gained thousands of unwelcome residents over the past 11 months: moths that infest closets, perch ...