Scientists have described a nocturnal moth's unique evolutionary trick in replicating the appearance of 3D leaf, with potential applications for the development of advanced camouflage materials and ...

Artificial lights at night are causing serious disruption to these insect night shift workers. That’s a problem for everyone.

R Maximiliane/ Shutterstock Alessandro Giusti, Lepidoptera Curator at the Museum, explains that brilliantly coloured moths are often day-flying species or those keen to display their distastefulness ...

The insect was identified as the Indian Moon Moth or Indian Luna Moth (Actias selene), usually a nocturnal creature. The Moon Moth has a very soft colouration of very pale green forewings with white ...

An estimated 22,000 species of moth call Australia home, and most are nocturnal, although some are diurnal (day active) or crepuscular (active at dawn and dusk). Many species feed on flower nectar ...

That includes butterflies being active during the day while moths are nocturnal. The stages between larva and adult have their distinctions too. What follows is an in-depth review of moth vs ...

A bat uses its specially adapted large ears to listen for moths. Fishing cats stalk their ... students could name all the ways in which the nocturnal animals shown in the clip are adapted for ...

Lots of other animals are nocturnal too. Prickly hedgehogs come ... They come out at night to hunt for moths. The bats use their big ears to listen out for the moths. They have VERY good hearing.