On pretty little black and orange wings, the cherry bark tortrix moth is staging an invasion. The foreign moth has been wreaking havoc on trees in British Columbia, including fatal infestations of ...

An army of tiny, parasitic wasps will be unleashed inside the English stately home where Anne Boleyn was born, in order to hunt out and eradicate moths that threaten the mansion’s furniture and ...

You can be be living in a country for decades, and then one day you find out: a chunky moth that looks just like a wasp lives there too. This stripy specimen was discovered in a nature reserve in ...

National Pollinator Week runs June 22-29, and the theme is “Life on a Leaf,” highlighting the outsized role of butterflies ...

Millions of microscopic wasps are scheduled to be released in the coming months in Bay Area counties, including San Francisco, under a state-led plan to control the light brown apple moth. Plans to ...

When it comes to an insect popularity contest between butterflies and moths, butterflies get most of the attention. Butterflies are usually, but not always, larger and more colorful. Plus, most moth ...

Tiny parasitoid wasps might help you say bye-bye to those smelly mothballs. Once clothes moth larvae start eating your favorite garments, they’re tough to get rid of. Tiny parasitoid wasps are here to ...

A new species of parasitoid wasp that constructs remarkable star-shaped cocoon masses is reported from the biodiversity hot spot Ryukyu Islands. Researchers observed how the wasps construct 'stars' ...