20-11-17 新的研究显示,飞蛾在夜间作为多种花卉及植物的传粉者起着至关重要的作用。飞蛾的运输网络比蜜蜂等日间传粉的昆虫更大、更复杂。 Long seen as fluttering pests that make holes in your clothes, scientists now say we have badly misjudged the humble moth. While...
14-10-22 The way in which male moths locate females flying hundreds of meters away has long been a mystery to scientists. Researchers know the moths use pheromones to locate their mates. Yet when these chemical odors are widely dispersed in a windy, turbulen...
13-09-25 Moths in northern Finland are less susceptible to rising temperatures than expected, suggesting high latitude moth populations around the world may be partly buffered from the effects of rapid climate warming, according to a new Dartmouth-Finnish st...
13-04-17 An international team of researchers, including an entomologist at the University of California, Riverside, has an explanation for why we see so many hybrid(混合的,杂种的) moths in nature. The team closely examined the behavior and the olfactory...
13-04-17 Ypsolophid moths are a peculiar(特殊的) group of Lepidoptera that attracts attention with their strange preference for a pose of rest. To take a break adult Ypsolophids like to go bottom up with antennae(天线,触须) stretched forward. The larvae...