19—The Estes Park Museum will undergo a temporary closure after a recent discovery of webbing clothes moths in the building ... has completed all of the pest mitigation and cleaning.

The Museum’s digitisation team has undertaken a year-long project to digitise the giant butterfly-moths, also known as the Castniidae collection. Digitiser Glory Turnbull shares more.

The moths are considered a scourge in museums, where they’ll eat their ... and on brushes—seems to be keeping the pest population in our home alive and well. Novick, who shares her apartment ...

The larvae of clothes moths are adapted to feed on keratin, a protein found in natural fibres. They can be a significant pest of home furnishings and stored fabrics. In recent years, clothes moths ...

butterflies are essentially moths that have evolved to be diurnal, or active during the day, says Robert Robbins, a curator of lepidoptera at the National Museum of Natural History. Both moths and ...

The Eastern comma butterfly larva is a pest of hops (Dole 2003). The tobacco hornworm (larva of the sphinx moth) and the tomato hornworm (larva of the five-spot hawkmoth) can be significant pests ...