A tiny, elusive moth species that can only feed on one kind of tree has been spotted in Germany after more than a century of going unseen in Europe. Stigmella torminalis, a pygmy moth with a ...

Because they usually are so small, they are difficult to spot and we often have to dissect micro-moths and examine their genitalia to identify them. There are about 1,850 species of micro-moth ...

While their wing patterns closely resembled that of Plutella xylostella, or the Diamondback moth, these adults, collected as larvae from the Copaquilla Ravine, had distinct genitalia, revealing ...