What are the first insects that come to mind when you think of nighttime? Are they fireflies? Mosquitoes? Moths? Something ...

The moth in the top picture is not a tarantula moth, but a tiger moth. Several readers clarified the name of the flying critter, which is also known as a garden ... known as a hawk moth or ...

The Elephant Hawk Moth bursts out of the garden, almost always unexpectedly ... Its design mimics tree bark and fallen leaves. The False Tiger Moth isn’t trying to pretend it’s harmless.

Gone. Maybe not in 2025, but certainly in the next year or two. The predator is box tree moth and it is coming to a garden near you. Boxwood plants are perhaps the most widely planted evergreen.

It’s also true that some moth larvae feast on the natural fibers of clothes. But the vast majority of moths aren’t chewing through your favorite sweater or pummeling your porch lamp—and many ...

but also the lawn and wider garden." Alys also draws attention to the elephant hawk moth, with its striking pink and olive green hues, which relies on leaf litter to create its cocoons ...

but also the lawn and wider garden." Alys points out the elephant hawk moth, with its unique pink and olive green colour, as a creature that thrives because of decaying leaves, reports the Express.

One summer, I found a large moth concealed in the folds of clothes left hanging to dry overnight on the clothesline in our back garden ... was a Death’s-head Hawk Moth and it was unusual ...

The beautiful ‘elephant hawk’ (red, green ... During World War Two, the willowherb and the moth benefitted from bomb-sites created by the wartime blitz. Today, these two species continue ...

Reader Richard Collinson has emailed his photo of a huge caterpillar he discovered in his garden; the biggest he’s ever seen ... online and discovered it was the caterpillar of the Elephant Hawk-Moth.

Tiger Moth Tales will celebrate the tenth anniversary of their debut album Cocoon with a brand new reissue of the album through White Knight Records on September 6. Originally released in 2014 ...