Have you ever felt that a person in a portrait is watching you, their eyes following you about a room? This optical illusion is known as the Mona Lisa effect, after Leonardo da Vinci’s famously ...

It’s not an owl staring at you, just a moth with fake eyes trying to look scary. Recently spotted at the Madidi National Park in Bolivia, it’s one of about 10,000 moth species thought to inhabit this ...

The first tiger moth to evolve had ancestral defenses--this species is the base of the tiger moth evolutionary tree." Five species of Gnophaela are members of the tiger moths, day flying moths that ...

The Cecropia moth, North America's largest native moth, is a striking insect known for its velvety body, bold patterns, and impressive wingspan. Found east of the Rocky Mountains, it undergoes ...

Deep in the subtropical rainforests of eastern Australia lives a rare caterpillar with a remarkable skull-like marking on its body that it brandishes to scare off predators. The caterpillar in ...