Fear of flying is quite common. As many as one in four people are thought to have it, or at least suffer a feeling of unease. It's clinically an issue for only about 10% of them though, in which case ...

In the middle of the 20th century, researchers studying insects along the southern coast of India collected a ...

NOT a butterfly, NOT a snake, it’s a moth- the world’s largest moth, Attacus Atlas! The moth, which looks like a snake, has ...

Seeing or hearing a dog, even those on leases or in enclosures can trigger anxiety. One of the less common phobias is lepidopterophobia, the fear of butterflies or moths. The word comes from the ...

Eric LoPresti, an assistant professor of ecology at the University of South Carolina, used the words “fuzzy” and “adorable” ...

"We looked at about 581 species of angiosperms (flowering plants) and the flying adults of 172 Lepidoptera species (butterflies and moths) from 2016 to 2022," Li said. "We also looked at the ...

On the first day of Ramadan, February 28th, the government announced a new working group to provide a “definition of anti-Muslim hatred/Islamophobia”. The group, to be chaired by Dominic ...

Codling moth is a major pest of apples in Adams County, where most of Pennsylvania’s apples grow. For the most part, a combination of diamide insecticides, Delegate (spinetoram) and pheromone mating ...

Three years ago, Washington State University entomologist Rob Curtiss launched a vast and expensive effort to determine how Northwest codling moths move around in the age of mating disruption. “The ...