Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A clothes moth infestation spells real trouble for your closet. Before you know it, all your favorite sweaters and expensive silk ...

The concept of moths being attracted to light is so established that it's found in poems, song lyrics, and folklore. These days, moths fly around lightbulbs, but in the past, it would be a naked flame ...

Those insects you see flying in crazed circles are trying to keep their backs towards the light because they think that direction is up, new... 'Like moths to a flame'? Here's what's going on with ...

For centuries, scientists assumed moths spiraled toward flames out of simple attraction, but new high-speed footage from two ...

When I looked out the kitchen window early one recent morning, there was a yellowish moth on it. I hit the window a few times ...

If you’ve been Zooming in sweatpants for two years, it might be time to check for moths. Here’s what to do if you find some. When not writing, Jeff spends his free time fixing up his old house. He has ...

Each spring, billions of bogong moths fill southeast Australia’s skies. Fleeing the lowlands and trying to beat the heat, they fly roughly 600 miles to caves embedded in the Australian Alps. The moths ...

The first tiger moth to evolve had ancestral defenses--this species is the base of the tiger moth evolutionary tree." Five species of Gnophaela are members of the tiger moths, day flying moths that ...

As moths get the Royal Mail stamp of approval, we celebrate the ten special species they’ve chosen to spotlight.

An Australian worker realized every entomophobe’s worst nightmare after encountering a moth so huge that it struggled to fly. The Mount Cotton State School in Queensland, where Mothra was discovered, ...

As the weather starts to warm in Australia, you might notice the pleasant flutter of butterflies in your garden during the day. And perhaps if you've left a porch light on during the night, you will ...