There I was, bringing groceries into the house when I spotted it. It was big. It was black. It was fuzzy or spiky (take your pick, I wasn't going to touch it). And it was heading toward the front door ...

No one expects to see a caterpillar crawling around in February. But Tammy Woodell found this giant leopard moth caterpillar out and about in her Pocahontas Village yard in Virginia Beach. Turns out ...

GREENVILLE, N.C. (WNCT) — I stepped outside on my way to work Wednesday morning and was greeted with an unfamiliar sight. A small, fuzzy, black caterpillar was waiting for me on my porch. All I could ...

On a recent balmy day in early February, the Earth Lady encountered a large black, spiny caterpillar doing a walkabout. What and why, pray tell, was this particular caterpillar out for a stroll when ...

While digitising the Museum's micromoth collection, a leopard moth collected by Sir Richard Owen - the founder of the Museum - was rediscovered. This is the only insect in the Museum's entire ...

In an on-going effort to digitise all the Natural History Museum’s 80 million specimens and make them accessible for free online to researchers around the world the team occasionally re-discover ...

A SPECIMEN of the above (Zeuzera aesculi) was sent to me by post in a tin box a few days ago from Felixstowe. The moth was dead when it reached me, but had laid eggs in the box. As there seemed to be ...