New research led by scientists at Penn State reveals how the daily cycles of plant aromas are linked to the dietary habits and evolution of the winged insects collectively known as Lepidoptera. In a ...

Called Lepidoptera, the four-song piano instrumental is a companion piece to Annie Lennox's new art installation Now I Let You Go…, which opened at MASS MoCA earlier this month Last Friday ...

A new study introduces the "Salient Aroma Hypothesis," which explains how varying plant aromas, particularly those released ...

The film explores the life cycles of butterflies and moths, specifically focusing on the Red Admiral butterfly and the Promethea moth. It discusses their similarities and differences, including ...

The Museum’s Lepidoptera collection is one of the oldest, largest and certainly the most type rich. The collection contains 12.5 million pinned specimens and one million papered specimens housed in 80 ...

See where in the UK the Museum's orange tip butterflies were collected during the past 150 years. As we digitise the Lepidoptera collections we are georeferencing each record, mapping the distribution ...

The first thing you notice about the entomology collections department, Lepidoptera division, at the Smithsonian’s Museum of Natural History is a faint, elusively familiar odor. Mothballs.