Aussies are swooning over a “fuzzy” pink creature spotted crawling on a wooden bench this week. A camper was soaking up the scenery in northern NSW when he stumbled upon the “adorable” insect.

While we humans might spend hours perfecting a mohawk, some birds are just born to be wild. These feathery crests, often ...

Birds have a pretty diverse lunch menu, some munch on seeds and berries, while others like to supplement their diet with ...

Compare a caterpillar to a butterfly or a maggot to a fly; newly hatched insect larvae don’t appear to be remotely related to the adults they will become. Not only ...

The Highland nymph, or Alpine coffee moth, is on the edge of extinction due to loss of mountain willow habitat, experts have said.

The government has been spraying a chemical from the air in Kamloops, the Okanagan and around the province to combat the ...

The avant-garde musical presentation examines the intersecting lives of moths and humans.

The Lives of Butterflies: A Natural History of our Planet's Butterfly Life by David G James and David J Lohman (Princeton University Press, 2024). ISBN: 9780691240565. Pbk, £30.

In more than 40 years of working with STRI, Aiello has become a leading insect expert, specializing in caterpillars of Lepidoptera, the order that included butterflies, moths and skippers ...

The larvae of moths, caterpillars, also play a vital role in ecosystems. For example, the larvae of Mallee moths (Oecophoridae) feed on dry leaves in the leaf litter, making them essential for the ...

As night falls over Australia’s forests, grasslands and backyards, the hidden world of nocturnal insects stirs to life. In many ecosystems, overall insect activity actually peaks at night ...

The caterpillars are 1.5-2cm long. You may also find pale-yellow, flat box caterpillar eggs on the undersides of the leaves. The box moth has a wingspan of around 4cm and the wings are white with a ...