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If you've ever felt underestimated and ignored, spare a thought for your local moths. Honeybees, bumblebees and butterflies are almost synonymous with pollination. People love them for their intimate ...

The instinct to clean up the yard every fall is hard to resist: rake every leaf, cut every brown stem, remove every dead ...

Moths are more efficient pollinators at night than day-flying pollinators such as bees, finds new research from the University of Sussex, published March 29 in PLOS ONE. Amid widespread concern about ...

Ask someone to name a pollinator, and they’ll likely respond with a bee or butterfly, or perhaps a hummingbird. But moths? They rarely make the list. “Moths have been underappreciated,” says Jill ...

Lights from buildings high in the sky can disorient birds. Noise from boats and oil exploration deep in the ocean can deafen whales. And animals that depend on their noses? Pollution from smokestacks ...

June is National Pollinator Month in the United States! However, the importance of protecting pollinator species is a worldwide effort. While pollinators are mostly thought of in connection with ...

Human development may be changing more than where pollinators live—it may also be changing when they are active. University ...

Yellow underwing moths were one of the species in the study. Eileen Kumpf/Shutterstock If you’ve ever felt underestimated and ignored, spare a thought for your local moths. Honeybees, bumblebees and ...