They flutter under streetlights, chew holes in old jumpers, and vanish before you get a proper look at them, but […] ...

The movement of moths inspires a new music project by composer Ellie Wilson. She used data shared by ecologists to create a piece where the insects take center stage.

Picture: Anna Gazeley This year, they turned up elephant hawk-moth, eyed hawk-moth and some bigger surprises: a leopard moth appeared, along with the green silver-lines, a clouded silver and the ...

An elephant hawk-moth (left), an adder and a giant woodwasp - just three of the creatures readers used to bring to the Tele office for David Carnduff to inspect.

Apparently the Humming-bird Hawk-moth is considered a good omen in Italy and Malta. A swarm was observed crossing the English Channel towards England on the day of the D-Day landings in 1944.