Butterflies likely split from nocturnal moths around 100 million years ago in present-day western North America or Central America, a new study of the winged insects finds.

The white-lined sphinx moth ( Hyles lineata) is a North American sphingid sometimes mistaken for a hummingbird as it hovers ...

These invasive moths are poised to proliferate across North America Much of the continent’s climate is “very suitable” for box tree moths, researchers say.

Scientists have painstakingly constructed the world's biggest butterfly tree of life and discovered that the first butterflies evolved 100 million years ago in what is now Central and North ...

MANY works on North American butterflies, and on some groups of moths also, have been published of late years, but the important family of the Noctuidæ has hitherto been much neglected. A great ...

New research found that more than 22% of native pollinators in North America are at an elevated risk of extinction.