In a scientific first, trail cam photos show a moth drinking tears from a moose. It may sound like an unsavory snack, but scientists tell Outside there’s a very reasonable explanation for the bizarre ...

Moths sometimes drink the tears of other animals, but the behavior has mostly been observed in the tropics. New photographs ...

Previous observations have seen butterflies and moths drinking the tears of animals such as turtles and crocodiles in the ...

Tear-drinking, known as lachryphagy, has mostly been observed in the tropics, so scientists were somewhat surprised to find ...

The less glamorous relatives of butterflies have been known to use their long proboscis to sip the tears of everything from ...

A caterpillar-looking bug hangs out on a stem, minding its own business. Suddenly, forceps emerge, moving towards the ...

It’s happened to the best of us. You’ve been patiently waiting out the year for sweater weather, and when you finally reach into your closet to grab your favorite cardigan, you discover that moths ...

Very few folks on the Eastern Plains and Front Range of Colorado can avoid miller moths during this time of year. That includes Nan Reubert, a resident of Centennial who said she has been swatting ...

Hawk moths are the underdog pollinators that sustain countless populations of plants around the world. Abigail Eisenstadt The National Museum of Natural History’s Lepidoptera collection holds up to ...