It’s a little after 6:30 on a brisk July morning in a stone hut high in the Italian Alps. A gently hissing wood fire is leaking some warmth out of a brick oven. Gathered near it, around a big wooden ...

In Lepidoptera, the interplay between nutrient acquisition and life-history allocation underpins survival, reproduction and ecological success. Larval stages depend critically on host-plant quality, ...

Should you ever find yourself playing a trivia game on the topic of moths and butterflies, here are a few facts that might help. Collectively called Lepidoptera, moths and butterflies account for ...

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 ...

Butterflies and moths, the Lepidoptera, are among the most beautiful of insects, familiar to almost everyone through thousands of different species from all around the world. But how they evolved has ...

Lepidoptera are key pests that require control measures to avoid significant losses in many cropping systems worldwide. Failure to control key species can result in significant losses that impact the ...

LepIndex is essentially a computerised and updated version of the Natural History Museum's (NHM) card index archive to the scientific names of the living and fossil butterflies and moths (Lepidoptera) ...