BELFAST, Northern Ireland, Aug. 9 (UPI) -- Giant elephant hawk-moths -- large furry fliers that can pack quite a punch if they fly into you -- are descending on Northern Ireland, entomologists say.

Standardized monitoring has revealed that the total number of moths has declined steadily by one third over the last 50 years (1968–2017). Pictured are two of the 2,500 moth species found in the UK ...

If butterflies are the beauty queens of the insect world, moths are their drab and pesky cousins—or so you may have thought. It’s true that most moths are nocturnal, so you’re more likely to see them ...