Butterflies are easy to love, but their night-flying cousins have always been a little harder to cozy up to. A group of Northwest biologists hopes to change that with the first comprehensive guide to ...

'A moth is a butterfly suffering from poor public relations,’ an enthusiast once remarked and, although he was joking, he’s right — we celebrate our butterflies, but neglect our moths. Physiologically ...

The app describes 50 species of butterflies and moths along with their pictures, common English and scientific name, size, habitat, identification features and host plant. Good news for budding ...

We'd all agree that in a beauty pageant involving butterflies and moths, the chances that the latter will win against their more flamboyant cousins are slim. But, that's only because most of us have ...

This book illustrates in full color 423 of the most common, wide-spread, important, or unusual North American species of Lepidoptera. Sign up for Smithsonian e-news arrow-right ...