It's been a scary past several days for a Swanton family after their one-year-old son had an allergic reaction to touching a tussock moth cocoon. Treating his reaction was a complicated ordeal for ...

Characteristic cocoon with final instar larva and pupa of the alpine rose leaf-miner moth on Rhododendron ferrugineum in Ardez, Graubünden, Switzerland. Alpine rose leaf-miner moth adults resting ...

As you may recall from last week, a reader sent in a picture of a nest for identification.

The Madagascan moon moth (Argema mittrei) begins life as a caterpillar, hatching from one of 100 to 150 eggs, although many of its siblings will not make it to adulthood. The caterpillar, along with ...

Luke Brown, manager of the Museum's butterfly house, says, 'It is impossible not to be fascinated by the atlas moth. This is due to its beauty, the detail on its wings, and its sheer size at every ...

They hatch in the late summer and early fall, gorge themselves on leaves until winter arrives, and then form a tough cocoon, in which they will stay as a pupa all winter before emerging as a moth in ...

Like a moth in a cocoon, Earth's molten crust solidified unseen, leaving geologists to piece together how lighter continents separated from the dense mantle below—a slow, hidden process now ...