An orchard has been infested with "unprecedented" numbers of ermine moths. The cider business, based near Kingsbury Episcopi in Somerset, has 15,000 trees and says at least half are currently infected ...

A U.K. photographer was surprised when he discovered a hedge completely covered in caterpillar webs. Mick Hickman was walking along a road near Bawtry in the English region of South Yorkshire on June ...

Creepy “ghostly” caterpillar webs have smothered the garden of a 17th-century country estate. An invasion of white ermine moth caterpillars has resulted in what looks like a horror movie scene, with ...

A stunned mother was shocked to find giant cobwebs had covered the trees and bushes in her local park, making her think Halloween had come early this year. Sarah Longfellow, 34, initially thought the ...

The workings of the ultrasonic warning sounds produced by the wings of a species of moth have been revealed by researchers at the University of Bristol. Scientists recently discovered that moths of ...

Caught in a situation comedian Rodney Dangerfield could sympathize with, moths get no respect. A butterfly caterpillar may chew as many plants as a moth caterpillar, but which is forgiven when it ...

A genus of deaf moth has evolved to develop an extraordinary sound-producing structure in its wings to evade its primary predator the bat. The finding, made by researchers from the University of ...

Yponomeuta tymbal—image of a tymbal showing row of microtymbals. Credit: Hernaldo Mendoza Nava The workings of the ultrasonic warning sounds produced by the wings of a species of moth have been ...