Caterpillars are the larval stage of moths and butterflies, which are members of the Lepidoptera insect order. Most known Lepidoptera species are herbivores, but a small portion of them-0.1 ...

What he saw were features similar to those found in insect wings. The wrinkle was that these types of moths and butterflies – known as Lepidoptera – were long posited to have evolved 50 to 70 million ...

The Lepidoptera order of insects includes butterflies and moths. While butterflies are more admired for their beauty, the tastier moth caterpillars do most of the work of transferring energy to ...

“We humans see insects like small creatures,” says co-author Blanca Huertas, the museum’s senior curator of Lepidoptera.

Both creatures belong to the order Lepidoptera; insects that begin as caterpillars but then mature into flying insects with four wings covered in minute overlapping scales – the grey dust that ...

The microbes of the world are constantly in competition, and are said to be locked in an evolutionary arms race. Their battles often involve host species as well. One example is the relationship ...

A new study describes a striking example of evolutionary convergence in the order of Lepidoptera. A diurnal moth species has adopted sexual communication rules that are specific to butterflies and ...

How Insect Poop Could Solve All Our Problems Bugs use their feces for weapons, navigation and gardening. Can we tap into this poop party?