Gypsy Moths Leave Their Mark
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By Genaro C. Armas  STATE COLLEGE, Pa. - These creepy critters enjoy nice long picnics in the woods.   The leaf-eating gypsy moth caterpillars are out in force in parts of the mid-Atlantic following a warm, dry spring - just the kind of weather that can make the insects thrive.
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A non-native moth whose larvae threaten to decimate Mexico's emblematic flat-leafed cactus has invaded the mainland for the first time, experts said Wednesday, an event that authorities have feared for decades.
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Conservationists celebrate a successful summer for a rare butterfly, which went extinct in the UK in 1979.
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Ants use angled signposts and tiny scent markers to find their way home or follow the path into the wilderness, according to a study published in British science weekly Nature.
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BUDAPEST (Reuters Life!) - A 100-year old Roma tradition is under threat after a local government in south-east Hungary forgot to include an annual party to mark the end of the wedding season in their list of festivals.
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By Curtis Morgan, The Miami Herald  Sep. 19--The Miami Blue butterfly, just 50 pairs of fluttering wings from extinction three years ago, breeds up a storm these days.   So far, the butterfly boom has been confined to a laboratory in Gainesville.
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Insects in the UK are less common than many of us think, a simple test by birdlovers suggests.
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By Allyson Bond, High Point Enterprise, N.C.  Jun. 17--RANDOLPH COUNTY -- A rare species of flower will remain in its natural habitat in RandolphCounty.
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The volunteers tote a butterfly net, binoculars and field guides around the Miami Metrozoo grounds, scanning the plants and flowers for fluttering wings. But they aren't searching for a rare species or collecting specimens for display &#151; they're counting butterflies for the Florida Butterfly Monitoring Network, then leaving the insects to continue their zigzagging flights through the humid air.
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VYEBOOM, South Africa -- It takes a certain eye to look at snails crawling over one another and see them as a escargots bubbling in garlic butter, never mind a means for poor parents to feed their children.
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Unusual insects are clinging to survival against threats from pollution and climate change, say conservationists.
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By Tom Henry, The Blade, Toledo, Ohio  Sep. 8--ELYRIA, Ohio -- Despite the annoyance that mayflies pose each June when they swarm across the region, Ohioans have generally held the broad-winged insects in high esteem because of what they have symbolized: Lake Erie's recovery.
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Female promiscuity in butterflies has been found to rise as bacteria kill off male partners.
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ATHENS -- Makis Yerassimakis, a Greek Gypsy who has spent a lifetime on society's margins, thought he could join the rest of Greece and cash in on the Olympics. So last Friday, he took about $600 worth of Greek flag trinkets to sell outside the opening ceremony.
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By The Lexington Herald-Leader, Ky.  Dec. 9--More than a million tiny blue birds once sang and nested in the tops of Appalachian forests. Now there may be only 500,000 cerulean warblers left.
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A tiny fly, possibly a species new to the United States, has been damaging some Louisiana rice fields, according to agriculture experts at the LSU AgCenter.
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By Bethany Meisinger-Reiff Contributing Writer  VANDALIA -- Last week may have been Emerald Ash Borer Awareness Week, but the city of Vandalia has been aware of -- and preparing for -- the invasive pest for some time.