The concept of moths being attracted to light is so established that it’s found in poems, song lyrics, and folklore. These ...

The observation that bugs are attracted to light goes back centuries — probably even millennia. Shakespeare referenced the strange phenomenon in 1596 when, in "The Merchant of Venice," he wrote, "Thus ...

Like a moth to flame, many scientists and poets have long assumed that flying insects were simply, inexorably drawn to bright lights. But that's not exactly what's going on, a new study suggests.

It’s the last day of June and I’m standing under the overhang on my back deck protected from the last drips of a rainstorm. It’s past nine o’clock but not quite dark yet. But the yard is starting to ...

You’ve probably seen or heard at least once in your lifetime about fireflies – the famous light-emitting insects! They form the Lampyridae family and are sometimes called glowworms or lightning bugs.

Trillions of insects embark, largely unnoticed, on epic journeys every year across mountain ranges, deserts and seas, and it is only now, as their numbers suffer huge declines, that scientists are tra ...