Part II of Rachel Carson’s groundbreaking 1962 series on the environmental impact of DDT and other pesticides.

As the climate warms, many species are shifting northward into areas that were previously too cold for them. A study, ...

It’s hard to overlook the brilliant orange and black wings of a monarch butterfly as it moves through a garden of flowers. It ...

The team fed tobacco cutworm larvae ( Spodoptera litura) a rigid belt-like nanocarbon called [6]MCPP, topped up with boiled ...

A new report, co-authored by Washington State University conservation biologist Cheryl Schultz, provides a roadmap for ...

We often come across small caterpillars in spring, nibbling on leaves all day long. A few weeks later, they disappear and ...

Thousands of invasive caterpillars which are threatening native ash trees have been spotted at locations across Belfast. The ash sawfly larvae are known to leave the trees completely bare of ...

Monarchs are the only butterfly known to make a two-way migration, as birds do. Other butterflies overwinter as larvae, pupae or even as adults in some species. But monarchs can’t survive the cold ...

In trees, gardens, and even on sidewalks — people across northern B.C. are spotting dark-coloured, fuzzy caterpillars with little spots on their backs and wondering if another tent caterpillar ...

To limit the already low risk, JBI will steer clear of rare butterfly habitats, rivers, lakes and streams and populated areas with high budworm larval counts like Fort Kent and target the upper ...

The paleontologists who made the discovery also identified a previously unknown Lepidoptera species and have named it Ampatiri eloisae.