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A large moth with a 10-inch wingspan has been spotted in Washington – and entomologists aren't sure how it got there. The atlas moth is one of the largest moths in the world and it's also illegal to ...

Tuesday morning, as I was doing chores around the house before I left for work, I noticed a very large moth under the eaves of my house by the front door. OK, to be honest, said moth scared the ...

A moth with a wingspan of 10 inches has been found in the U.S. for the first time, according to the Washington State Department of Agriculture, which is asking residents to report further sightings.

After a four-year hiatus, black witch moths – imposing but harmless creatures with a 7-inch wingspan – have begun to show up in large numbers again across Southern California, including Orange County.

The larger the moth, the better hearing senses it needs if it wants to avoid its worst enemy, the bat. A large moth is easier to detect for a bat, and therefore evolution has forced large moths to ...

These conical snails (about 10mm) climb the south-facing wall of our house in surprising numbers. This wall has a small lawn in front. They look like some form of sea snail, but we are about 1km from ...

Populations of Britain's large moths have crashed over the past 40 years, with three species going extinct in the last decade, a report has revealed. Two-thirds of larger moth species had declined ...

From venomous snakes to giant lizards and hairy tarantulas, Australia is home to countless terrifying and unusual wild critters. But weirdest of them all might be this lesser-known insect: an enormous ...

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 ...

It is spring on the Front Range of Colorado, which means before long the region will receive an influx of many, many moths. Colorado is home to thousands of species of moths, many of which are ...

A large moth with a 10-inch wingspan has been spotted in Washington – and entomologists aren’t sure how it got there. The atlas moth is one of the largest moths in the world and it’s also illegal to ...