North Carolina State University researchers have identified the specific blend of pheromone chemicals—including a newly revealed aphrodisiac—used by male moths during courtship as they attempt ...

Senior author Coby Schal, an urban entomology professor at North Carolina State University, wrote to Inverse that female and male moths produce pheromones that resemble each other but are also ...

A Tiger Moth has found a new home at an airfield where dozens of the aeroplanes were used to train pilots during World War ...

By the time he remembered them several days later, he had about 50 adult moths, and unexpectedly, all of them were female. On a hunch, he bred the females from the greenhouse with male tobacco ...

During this buzz, some types of moths generate enough ultrasound noise to jam up the bat's ability to find it. Sponsor Message Gough knew that tiger beetles also produce ultrasound and wondered ...

The discovery of a new moth virus that selectively kills males suggests that numerous viruses have independently evolved male-killing propensities 1. Mechanisms that bias a species’ sex ratio ...