Goetze: Mention of silk moths may conjure up images of China where for millennia, fibers teased from silk moth cocoons have ...

They go through various stages until they burrow into grass and soil and come out 10 to 20 days later as adults, typically an inch in length with a drop-shaped mark in the middle of the forewing.

A cinnamon teal that's rarely seen in Ontario has been spotted in a Grimsby, Ont., wetland. Local birders estimate over 200 ...

The small heath butterfly closes its wings as soon as it settles, hiding the ‘eye’ and orange color of the forewing, so I had to fire the shutter before it settled. The butterfly in this image is ...

Even so, it is enormous, able to cover a man’s entire hand. Its wings appear dull and mottled until Jasmin slides the forewing away from the hind wing, revealing a shock of yellow between.

Because the hindwings of bandwinged grasshoppers possess taxonomic characters, spread the left forewing and hindwing by mounting a few males and females on a spreading board (Fig. 16). Leave the ...

Goetze: The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department reports that butterfly watching — butterflying — is becoming almost as ...

The nettle is the main food plant of peacock caterpillars and therefore attracts females looking for suitable sites to lay their eggs. All of which is a good reason for us to cherish our nettle ...

An ermine moth is white with small black spots on the forewing, but the number of spots can vary. They form ghostly webbing over the leaves to protect themselves from predatory birds while they feast.

Adult females are flightless and males are chestnut coloured, with a distinct white spot on the rear of each forewing. We spotted the lifeless body of a bird lying by the roadside on Horn Head ...

With fall beginning in a few weeks and temperatures cooling down — hopefully — here come more pests to deal with, in the house, in the yard and in the ...