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The Magic of Moths

The Magic of Moths

Apr 3, 2025

Come out to Banshee Reeks Nature Preserve to discover why moths constitute about 90 percent of all the Lepidoptera on...

Mow Less, Plant More to Help Pollinators

Aug 1, 2022

Volume 27 Issue 3, Summer 2022 by BJ Lecrone, Audubon at Home Ambassador The beautiful butterflies and moths have returned...

Seeing Moths Up Close

Seeing Moths Up Close

Jul 19, 2021

Last week we hosted our first in-person education presentations since the beginning of the pandemic. On evening of July 16,...

Eastern Tent Caterpillar

Apr 1, 2017

  Vol. 22 Issue 1, Spring 2017 by Emily Bzdyk As a child and budding entomologist, I often collected caterpillars to...

The Beautiful, Majestic Saturniid Moths

Apr 1, 2012

Vol. 17 Issue 2, Spring 2012 By Karen Coleman Photo by Donna Quinn My love affair with the Great Saturniid...

Exciting Project to Document Rare Virginia Dragonflies, Butterflies and more

Mar 29, 2011

This just in from Christopher S. Hobson, VA DCR – Division of Natural Heritage: The Virginia Department of Conservation and...

Luna Moth

Jul 1, 2007

Vol. 12 Issue 2, Summer 2007 By Ginger Walker Many people say that they will never forget their first sight...

Do Woolly Bears Really Know?

Jan 1, 1998

Vol. 3 Issue 1, Winter 1997/1998 Photo by Nicole Hamilton Some people swear by the Old Farmer’s Almanac. Some swear...

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