A new study by researchers from The University of Western Australia has used computer vision to reconstruct the false illusion of 3D shapes created by moth wing patterns. The research, published in ...

Are there any wing pattern differences between butterflies and moths? Sandra Schachat discusses her research on wing pattern and wing venation in the insect order Lepidoptera.

Schachat, Sandra R. and Brown, Richard L. 2018. "Wing patterns of ditrysian moths (Lepidoptera: Psychidae) include variants and violations of predictive models ...

Over the past two decades, scientists discovered that the majority of melanic wing color variants are controlled by a single genomic region surrounding the protein-coding gene 'cortex'. It was assumed ...

Just as when we humans reach for objects, the hummingbird hawk moth uses its visual sense to place its long proboscis precisely on a flower to search for nectar, according to biologists. This is why ...