It's not a butterfly — it's a moth! Learn how to identify the promethea silk moth, a beautifully patterned backyard visitor.

When the moth breaks out of the cocoon, it damages the precious silk ... pointing to a pair of blue and green socks. "It's very, very finely spun. ... If you made socks out of this," she said ...

Photographer and National Geographic Explorer Rena Effendi learned that a little-known species was named after her late ...

Fire coral will tend to develop a yellow-green or brownish ... hind- and forewings. The moths hatch out leaves whole from stems before pupating within a hard, wood cocoon spun on poles or tree ...

with a green shade on the abdomen. In about ten days after this last change takes place, the chrysalis works itself almost entirely out of the cocoon, and the little moth represented at Fig.

THE return of the sunshine has brought with it an unwelcome pest as deadly processionary caterpillars have been spotted in ...

Blue Ridge unfolds like a storybook mountain town from above, its charming streets nestled among endless rolling green hills that seem to stretch ... fire creates a focal point that draws diners like ...

green, black, iridescent or multi-colored. Bees can be all different shapes and sized. Honeybees and bumblebees are social, but most of the other bees are solitary. Some other animals mimic bees, ...

Janet B. Carson, a freelance writer, retired in 2018 from her 38-year career at the University of Arkansas Cooperative Extension. She was a horticulture specialist and coordinator of the Arkansas ...

An invasive pest that chows down on boxwood plants is expanding its range. The quarantine area is being extended to include ...