One August evening last summer, I was in Adams County in southern Ohio shining specialized lights on white sheets with some expert lepidopterists. We were trapping moths deep in the midst of the ...
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 ...
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 ...
Empty of human visitors because of lockdowns, the darkened rooms of Britain’s historic buildings have gained thousands of unwelcome residents over the past 11 months: moths that infest closets, perch ...
Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, Vol. 4, No. 3 (1979), pp. 293-310 (18 pages) 1. Colonies of Polistes canadensis canadensis (L.) in the lower Amazon region of Brazil are founded by 2-29 females ...
Blickling Hall, a centuries-old building in England, is trying to protect its priceless tapestries, carpets and furniture with thousands and thousands of microscopic wasps. By Anna Schaverien Empty 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 ...
Unique footage of a new species of clearwing moth has been recorded in a primeval rainforest in Peninsular Malaysia revealing the behaviour of this elusive insect. Clearwing moths, which are ...