The caterpillars generally feed on privet and lilac bushes and ash trees. Unlike many other species of large moths, owl moths do feed as adults, mainly eating nectar from flowers. This contact with ...

There are more than 18,000 named butterfly species on the planet today, and about 140,000 different moth species. All of them evolved from ... come face to face with a much larger creature. The owl ...

SAN FRANCISCO— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today that it will protect the California spotted owl under the Endangered Species Act. The owls have seen their numbers dwindle because of ...

The new moth species was named Plutella copaquillaensis, or the Copaquilla moth, according to the study. Thousands of new species are found each year. Here are three of our most recent eye ...

WASHINGTON— After more than 30 years of consideration, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today finalized the listing of the rare bog buck moth as endangered under the Endangered Species Act. But the ...