What is it about lights that make moths so crazy? For a long time, scientists blamed the moon. Moths used the moon as a navigational beacon, it was argued, keeping it at a constant angle to their ...

Being primarily nocturnal creatures, moths evolved to travel by the glimmer of the moon, by a method called transverse orientation. “[Transverse orientation] is sort of like us keeping the north ...

FOX 5's Bob Barnard was doing a live interview earlier this week at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History in Washington when an African Moon Moth decided to raise a family in his ...