My older son came home from college wanting to set up a moth trap. He goes to school on the Olympic Penninsula, where the coastal temperate rainforests house diverse and numerous nocturnal moths and ...

Nicknamed “aphid wolves,” lacewings are beneficial insects with a voracious appetite for common pests. These generalist predators consume various prey in their larval and adult stages. Surprisingly, ...

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The discovery that a Jurassic moth lacewing mimicked a co-occurring fossil lichen to promote survival predates modern lichen-insect associations by 165 million years Scientists have uncovered the ...

A new study shows that herbivores and their predators have evolved efficient strategies to deal with toxic plant secondary metabolites. Caterpillars of the diamondback moth deploy a specific gut ...

Scientists have discovered a previously unknown species of lacewing insect after stumbling upon a series of photos posted on Flickr®, according to a paper published in the journal ZooKeys. The species ...

You can get pretty much anything at Walmart these days — milk, bread, toys, furniture, electronics and, it turns out, dinosaur-era insects thought to have disappeared from large swaths of North ...

Chemical defenses of plants not only affect the growth and development of herbivores, but also, indirectly, the next consumers in the food chain. A new study shows that herbivores and their predators ...