June means warm nights, summer solstice, fireflies … and the seldom-seen giant silk moths. Giant silk moths are members of the family Saturniidae and include some of the most spectacular native large ...

Call it The Mothman Prophecies Part II. For the last month, Oklahoma City resident Carol Dillin and her husband have been living their own version of the urban legend. A massive winged creature has ...

[The name of The Nature Conservancy has been updated in this story]. Many pollinators, including butterflies, moths, bees, wasps, beetles and even common flies, call Ohio home. Over 130 species of ...

You know that old saying in journalism: Write about giant, weird bugs once, and your inbox forevermore will brim with photos of giant, weird bugs. It’s been two weeks since we covered the appearance ...

Not afraid of lions or tigers or bears? How about a giant moth with a wingspan that can reach up to 10 inches? Now, that’s a whole different story. Officials in Washington state are urging people to ...

One of the world's largest moths showed up in Bellevue, Washington, to the astonishment of the homeowner who found it basking in the sun on the side of his garage — and the alarm of entomologists. How ...

The winged creature was seen on the garage of a University of Washington professor on July 7 and turned over to the Washington State Department of Agriculture for identification. “This is a ‘gee-whiz’ ...

Deep in the subtropical rainforests of eastern Australia lives a rare caterpillar with a remarkable skull-like marking on its body that it brandishes to scare off predators. The caterpillar in ...

NEW YORKNEW YORK — Trillions of insects migrate across the globe each year, yet little is known about their journeys. So to look for clues, scientists in Germany took to the skies, placing tiny ...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Two moths the size of a hand, their wings patterned with brown and pink around four translucent sections, mate for hours hanging from a line alongside cocoons like the ones they ...

Malaysia is seeing an invasion of giant, friendly moths, putting it in the running for most moths against the moth-y cities of Singapore. The BBC reported today that thousands of the giant creatures ...

MAKANDA, Ill. — National Moth Week may almost be over, but there's still plenty of time to get out there and celebrate! Started in 2012 by the Friends of the East Brunswick Environmental Commission, ...