Caitlin O'Kane is a New York City journalist who works on the CBS News social media team as a senior manager of content and production. She writes about a variety of topics and produces "The Uplift," ...

A pink- and caramel-colored elephant hawk-moth sitting on a leaf. The content of a small box on his roof terrace in central London has taught ecologist Tim Blackburn more about the natural world than ...

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Whenever you see any type of pest in your house, your first thought is probably, "How do I get rid of it?" The second is (gulp), "What if there are more?" This is particularly true when you spot an ...

Previous observations have seen butterflies and moths drinking the tears of animals such as turtles and crocodiles in the ...

I’ve written about moths in the past and how, for a group of animals represented by somewhere north of 3,000 species in Ohio alone, they remain relatively unknown to all but the most die-hard ...

BILLINGS – As the less sexy and drab relative of the butterfly, moths don’t get a lot of positive attention. It doesn’t help that most are active at night. Yet they outnumber butterflies about nine to ...

On a steamy June evening, Curtis Eckerman embarks on a mothing expedition in the Bauerle Ranch greenbelt, in far South Austin. Towing a wagon full of supplies, he follows a narrow trail that leads ...

The natural world is full of seemingly bizarre relationships, some nearly unbelievable. Moths transferring orchid pollen on their eyeballs is one of those. The orchid family (Orchidaceae) is massive, ...

It represents a milestone for Project Psyche, an international initiative aiming to sequence all 11,665 species of ...

Tear-drinking, known as lachryphagy, has mostly been observed in the tropics, so scientists were somewhat surprised to find ...