A moth specimen collected roughly 170 years ago by the famed naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace sat neglected in museum storage for more than a century and a half before researchers finally identified ...
Animals are disappearing from the planet at an alarming rate. Each day, an estimated 200 species go extinct. Some of the ...
Sometimes, a creature unknown to science hides in plain sight without anyone realizing its significance. In the case of one ...
European Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths), with a currently known inventory of approximately 11,000 species, are generally considered well-researched. However, a new genus and species from the ...
A university student's research project has uncovered a rare moth species not recorded in a county for more than 80 years.
By Ryan Truscott A strikingly handsome emerald-green moth, lost to science for nearly one-and-a-half centuries, has been ...
The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash. Colin Tiernan, The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash. Oct. 23—According to top lepidopterists, no one knows more about Inland Northwest moths than Carl Barrentine.