A groundbreaking discovery has revealed the oldest physical evidence of butterflies and moths, dating back 236 million years ...

The paleontologists who made the discovery also identified a previously unknown Lepidoptera species and have named it ...

A team of paleontologists affiliated with several institutions in Argentina, working with a colleague from the U.K., has ...

Warm temperatures, not just predator pressure, may favor luna moths’ long bat-fooling streamers, a geographic analysis of iNaturalist pics shows.

Photograph by Mac Stone Biologist Peter Houlihan inspects the proboscis of a giant sphinx moth. Twice the length of its body, its long tongue can access nectar deep in long-stemmed flowers like ...

Most of the measurements of the proboscis ... and curator of moths at the Natural History Museum, London in a statement. "The taxonomic change we now propose finally gives long-deserved ...

The adult sphinx moths are also known for their long proboscis, which they use to draw nectar from deep, tubular flowers. The phenomenon of the caterpillar's transformation was first observed in ...

but mainly these moths that are huge and have a really long proboscis, that’s when they come and pollinate. The PBS crew is trying to capture that.” On Sunday, dozens of people drove their ...

The hummingbird hawk-moth is partial to flowers with tube-shaped petals and uses its long, curled proboscis — an elongated sucking mouthpart — to extract nectar from the flower's center.

Another telltale sign: six legs, as opposed to two. And instead of a needle-shaped beak, a hummingbird moth boasts a long proboscis through which to slurp that sweet, sweet nectar. These ...

Just as when we humans reach for objects, the hummingbird hawk moth uses its visual sense to place its long proboscis precisely on a flower to search for nectar, according to biologists.