Hawk moth caterpillars scare predators by mimicking snakes, complete with fake eyes, lunging movements, and scale-like patterns.

The nutritional value of indigenous foods has prompted doctors  to recommend them for conditions such as diabetes and ...

The largest of four fifteenth-century tapestries, known collectively as the Devonshire Hunting Tapestries, takes falconry as its subject. Lovers are depicted strolling arm-in-arm as their birds hunt ...

A homeowner was startled to spot a bizarre creature resembling both a crocodile and a snake. Marianne De Guzman discovered an Elephant Hawk-Moth caterpillar while watering her garden in Batangas, the ...

Britain’s biodiversity continues to decline at an alarming rate, but environmentalists say there are reasons to be cheerful ...

Hotter, dryer conditions could be behind the increased reproduction of the beet moths - whose caterpillars are about 0.5-2cm long Farmers are hoping for a cool, wet spring to halt a three-year ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...

A bird observatory on a small island in the United Kingdom was pleasantly surprised by the unexpected sighting of a rare moth. According to the BBC, staff at the Calf of Man Bird Observatory confirmed ...

In tea gardens (represented as bottom left), tea plants grow as dense branched shrubs, making visual recognition from aerial views difficult. In addition, both color morphs (melanic and grey) are not ...

Caitlyn Forster previously received funding from the Australian Research Council. She is affiliated with Invertebrates Australia. As the weather starts to warm in Australia, you might notice the ...

A sight to see late in the summer is a hummingbird moth. Sometimes, they’re also called hawk moths or sphinx moths. Whatever you call them, they are fun to observe. The various names all come from the ...

An international team of researchers has found that Australia’s Bogong moth relies on the stars as well as on the Earth’s magnetic field to guide it on its annual migratory journey. An earlier study, ...