Butterflies might get all the credit for being the pretty ones, but moths can definitely share the spotlight. Some of these ...

Meet the colorful moths you can see during daytime. Speaking of silk moths with stunning eye spots, Io moths are known for ...

Examples include the Anna tiger moth, with creamy yellow hindwings under forewings patterned like broken glass, the ultronia’s red and black, and the Io moth’s huge, eye-like spots – which ...

The sea-foam green of a luna moth and the yellow and pink of an io moth can also be confused with butterfly wings. Here are some more reliable differences. Generally, butterflies are active during ...

Heparin treatment caused the black disc in io moths' eyespots to dramatically expand in all directions, while the salt-and-pepper patterning in polyphemus moths' eyespots spread in a single direction.

It emerges in late spring after months in a cocoon, ready to find a mate, fast. The Io Moth loves to surprise. At rest, it shows off plain yellow or brown wings. But disturb it, and out come ...