black witch moths – imposing but harmless creatures with a 7-inch wingspan – have begun to show up in large numbers again across Southern California, including Orange County. And Texas ...

The world of moths is vast and underappreciated ... ornately marked with orange dots and bristling with stiff hairs. The mature caterpillar will soon fashion a cocoon, and late-summer luna ...

These big green worms are the larval form of a hummingbird-size moth. One lazy Tahoe summer ... the first gladiolus turned out to be bright orange with a yellow center. I assumed this was just ...

Because it is also colorful, people often mistake this moth for a butterfly. It’s a Canadian import that used to be far more ...

Orange sallow moths disappeared from the Muddy Brook Valley ... As fires grew scarcer — the last big wildfire there was recorded in 1946 — the landscape changed and more moisture-friendly ...

It was big. It was black ... areas or occasionally orange with large blue-black spots. The legs also have iridescent, blue-black setae. The giant leopard moth is found from southern Ontario ...

It was exquisite, as big as many butterflies, as were the orange moth and the puss moth before it. Were they creatures which dashed around in the daylight they would be familiar and exciting ...

Another Big Island crop is under ... with bright orange-red spots and white hairs and measure about an inch in length. An adult Ramie moth has a wingspan up to 3.5 inches. Kamehameha butterfly ...

Have you noticed the army of furry, brown and orange moths that have arrived in New Orleans this month? They're called buck moths and they're the result of the stinging caterpillars that Louisiana ...

It was slim, around three quarters of an inch long and had a striking orange and black pattern that was hard to miss. I have seen these before, they are called ailanthus webworm moths. In contrast ...