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Flowers are open from midnight until dawn, attracting hummingbird moths (Hemaris spp.).
Several Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths) utilize the leaves as food; see List of Lepidoptera that feed on maples.
Seeds of some species are attacked by the caterpillars of Agathiphaga, some of the most primitive of all living moths.
:This article is about the genus of moths in the Zygaenidae family; Aglaope is also one of the Sirens in Greek mythology
Amphiesmenoptera is an insect superorder, established by Willi Hennig in his revision of insect taxonomy for two sister orders: Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths) and Trichoptera (caddisflies).
The book includes the claim that, mostly for shock value, Kettlewell and Helen Spurway, then the graduate student (and later the wife) of J.B.S. Haldane, were known to catch live moths and eat them whole.
Of the 220,000 species of Lepidoptera, about 45,000 species are butterflies, which probably evolved from moths.
Similar hidden bright patterns are common in various Lepidoptera, for instance moths of the genus Catocala.
QANTAS used Fox Moths to replace de Havilland DH.50s on the Flying Doctor Service.
The most famous of the moths however, if nothing then for sheer numbers, is the De Havilland Tiger Moth|DH.82
Most famous of the record breaking Puss Moths was Jim Mollison's G-ABXY, "The Heart's Content" which completed the first solo east-west Atlantic crossing in August 1932 and the first east-west crossing of the South Atlantic from Lympne Aerodrome to Natal, Brazil in February 1933.
The Mire also has some rare insects such as the Black Darter Dragonfly (Sympetrum danae) and moths such as the Light Knot Grass (Acronicta menyanthidis).
The Dioptinae are an almost exclusively neotropical group of day-flying moths, many of which exhibit bright wing coloration and are involved in mimicry rings with butterflies (especially Ithomiini) and moths of the Sterrhinae subfamily and Arctiidae family.
Moths (Lepidoptera) form the majority of the diet, but red bats also prey heavily on beetles (Coleoptera), flies (Diptera), and other insects.
With Fraser's typically indecipherable lyrics it is difficult to be sure, but all the titles on the two EPs seem to have some link with Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths).
Elaeagnus species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Coleophora elaeagnisella and the gothic moths.
Moths of the genus Adaina and in particular Adaina microdactyla (Hübner), have been investigated as possible biological control agents.
New Zealand geckos are omnivorous – their diet is primarily insectivorous in nature – flies, spiders, moths etc., but they will supplement it with fruit (i.e.: from mahoe) and nectar (i.e.: from flax flowers) when it is available.
Among others, it contains the butterflies commonly called "swifts" ("Swift moths" belong to the unrelated Hepialidae).
In the 1930s, Gravesend was the site of a research station breeding Cactoblastis moths later released to eradicate a devastating prickly pear infestation.
The Natural History Unit of the BBC filmed arctic woolly bear moths in their natural habitat on Ellesmere Island during June 2009.
The larvae are hyperparasites (parasites of parasites), mainly developing in larvae of flies (Diptera, Tachinidae), as well as in wasp larvae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) parasitizing caterpillars moths (Noctuidae).
He moved to No. 1 School of Army Co-operation at Old Sarum on 29 July and then went to Odiham on 10 August where he flew 15 hours on Tiger Moths and Hectors.He was posted to 6 OTU, Sutton Bridge on the 19 August, converting to Hurricanes and joined No. 245 Squadron at Aldergrove on 11 September.
The name was also invalidly applied to a genus of moths now known as Tulaya.
Several of the petals showed insect feeding damage while one of the leaves showed distinct skeletonization, a feeding method often found in Lepidopterans like the Gracillariidae family moths.
The leek moth or onion leaf miner (Acrolepiopsis assectella) is a species of moths of family Acrolepiidae, genus Acrolepiopsis, a pest of leek crops.
Liatris species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including the flower moths Schinia gloriosa and Schinia sanguinea, both of which feed exclusively on the genus, and Schinia tertia and Schinia trifascia.
In October 2003, Tiger Moths from Luskintyre participated in The Great Tiger Moth Air Race, an event celebrating 100 years of powered flight and sponsored by aircraft manufacturer Airbus.
virginica is adapted primarily to nocturnal pollination by medium sized moths and larger sphinx moths.
Netoxena is an extinct genus of moths within the family Eolepidopterigidae, containing one species, Netoxena nana, which is known from the Crato Formation in Brazil.
It lost one of the Tiger Moths to a bushfire on 1 July, a few days after the plane crashlanded south of Katherine.
The slow-flying moths can often be seen feeding at flowers; it is common around its preferred food plants of the daisy family, for example groundsel (and other Senecio spp.), ragworts and Cineraria.
Remnants of this bush that grow in Otago are home to native moths and insects, and areas with this species are now being protected with covenants.
These moths are species of the genus Urania in the Americas, and of the genus Chrysiridia in Africa.
Opostegidae or "white eyecap moths" is a family of insects in the Lepidoptera order that is characterised by particularly large eyecaps over the compound eyes (see also Nepticulidae, Bucculatricidae, Lyonetiidae).
It is commonly known as the plaster bagworm but as the term "bagworm" more properly refers to moths of a different family (Psychidae), it is often called the household casebearer – which may in turn refer to the related Phereoeca allutella.
Phlomis species are the only host plants of the moths Coleophora phlomidella and C. phlomidis.
A preferred host of gypsy moth, death occurs when nearly complete defoliation by gypsy moths is followed by a fungal infection by Armillaria spp.
Psamateia is an extinct genus of moths within the family Eolepidopterigidae, containing one species, Psamateia calipsa, which is known from the Crato Formation in Brazil.
Riechia is a genus of moths within the family Castniidae containing only one species, Riechia acraeoides, which is found in Peru, Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina.
Wildlife in the reserve include the Northern Spinach and Common Lutestring moths as well as a host of birds both on and off the water.
Sapindus species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies) species including Endoclita malabaricus.
Scythrididae adults are smallish to mid-sized moths, which when at rest appear teardrop-shaped.
The Colour Identification Guide to Moths of the British Isles (Macrolepidoptera) by Bernard Skinner is a single volume identification guide to the macro-moths of Britain and Ireland published by Viking Books, often referred by moth recorders simply as "Skinner".
The 85 species of moths and butterflies includes the White-letter Hairstreak.
The EP was re-released on July 12th 2011, this time including a fourth remix, ("The Undoing"), by Irish artist Moths, who has since been renamed MMOTHS.
Moths of the genus Maroga are pests of wattles (Acacia) and have crossed over from their wild host-plant to become serious pests of cultivated stone fruit trees, particularly cherries.
Research is in progress on the ecological and evolutionary relationships between some members of the genus and specialist long-tongued pollinators, particularly night flying hawk moths (Family Sphingidae) and flies in the families Nemestrinidae, Tabanidae, and Bombyliidae.