Because both bats and moths are nocturnal, bats use echolocation to zero in on the insects when hunting them in the dark. A new study, however, suggests that some moths have evolved special wingtips ...

The world's largest moth, Attacus atlas, was found recently in Hezhou, a city in South China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region. It was stumbled upon by a team of entomologists from Guangxi Normal ...

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The winged creature was seen on the garage of a University of Washington professor on July 7 and turned over to the Washington State Department of Agriculture for identification. “This is a ‘gee-whiz’ ...

UC Davis undergraduate Eileen Fodje displays what is considered to be the world's biggest moth, the <i>Attacus atlas</i>. Found in the tropical and subtropical forests of Southeast Asia, it has a ...

KALLAKURICHI: Atlas moth (Attacus atlas), one of the largest moths in terms of wing surface area and wingspan, was spotted in the Kalvarayan Hills in Kallakurichi district by an environmentalist ...

Kolhapur (Maharashtra), Sep 17: A team of naturalists have found an entire family of the gigantic and rare Attacus Atlas moth, the world’s largest, in the Western Ghats in Kolhapur. The discovery of ...

Imagine if this scary customer turned up in your wardrobe. Meet the world's largest moth, known as Attacus or Atlas, as it serenely sits on a road in north-east India. With its astonishing 25cm or one ...

See more&colon; To see the image this article refers to, keep checking Picture of the Day on our news blog Short Sharp Science ATLAS moths (Attacus atlas) are giants of the insect world. They are the ...

Sameer Talekar and his family had a surprise visitor this Ganesh Chaturthi, when the world's largest moth in terms of total wing span, the Atlas moth (Attacus atlas), halted briefly at their house in ...

Birds do it, bees do it — and now there is photographic evidence that a rare species of moth does it too. Rangers employed by Indigenous group Larrakia Nation have photographed a pair of Atlas moths — ...