Sitting alone in the cockpit of a small biplane, Martin Wikelski listens for the pings of a machine by his side. The sonic beacons help the ecologist stalk death’s-head hawkmoths (Acherontia atropos) ...

It’s a bird, it’s a plane—no wait, it’s a migrating moth… being followed by a plane? For the first time, scientists have continually tracked an insect over more than 50 miles of a long-distance ...

THE singular cry produced by the Death's Head Moth has for a long time been known to naturalists, and the question of the exact method of its production has given rise to much discussion. To judge, ...

The name Clifden nonpareil is derived from the Cliveden estate in Berkshire where the moth was first recorded in Britain during the 18th-century, "nonpareil" meaning "without equal" in French. It is a ...

The Irish Naturalists' Journal is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that has published issues every year since 1925. It is unique in scope and content, covering all aspects of Natural History, and is ...

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NEW YORK — Trillions of insects migrate across the globe each year, yet little is known about their journeys. So to look for clues, scientists in Germany took to the skies, placing tiny trackers on ...