…an insect with two pairs of broad wings covered in microscopic scales, typically drably coloured and held flat when at rest. Moths are chiefly nocturnal, and lack the clubbed antennae of butterflies…
…a large, mainly yellow North American moth of the silk moth family, with prominent eyespots on the hindwings…
…a large greyish moth, the caterpillar of which bores into wood and has a goat-like smell…
…a large North American moon moth which has pale green wings with long tails and transparent eyespots bearing crescent-shaped markings…
…a small moth which infests mills, granaries, and other places where grain is stored. The larvae spin silken webs…
…a large pale green silk moth with transparent eyespots on each wing and long tail-like projections on the hindwings…
…a large furry greyish-white moth with darker markings. The boldly marked caterpillar rears up when threatened, waving whip-like appendages and spitting formic acid…
…a small fish with bony plates covering the body and large pectoral fins which spread out horizontally like wings. It lives in the warmer waters of the Indo-Pacific…
…a large moth with a caterpillar that spins a protective silken cocoon:…
…a brownish moth which lays its eggs in beehives. The caterpillars cover the combs with silken tunnels and feed on beeswax…
…a very large boldly marked silk moth which occurs in both the Old and New World tropics…
…a drab moth related to the clothes moth, the larvae of which feed on coarse textiles and animal hair…
…a grayish-yellow moth, the caterpillar of which is a pest of flour and cereal products…
…a large European swift moth, the male of which has white wings…
…a tussock moth having a brown male and larger white female, the latter being fully winged but flightless. The caterpillar can be a serious pest of orchards and woodland…
…a clearwing moth which resembles a hornet, with larvae that burrow under tree bark…
…a white moth with black and yellow spots, the caterpillars of which are similarly coloured and can be pests of fruit bushes…
…a small, slender long-legged moth with narrow wings divided into feathery plumes. At rest the wings are rolled and held out sideways, giving the moth the shape of a letter T…
…a stout moth which has boldly spotted and streaked wings and a hairy caterpillar (woolly bear)…
…a moth that emerges in the winter, the female of which has only vestigial wings. It was formerly a major pest of fruit trees…
…a small white American moth which lays its eggs in the ovary of a yucca plant. While doing so it deposits a ball of pollen on the stigma, thereby fertilizing the seeds on which the larvae feed…
…a brown moth whose caterpillars are pests of cabbages and related plants…
…a small, drab moth whose larvae feed on a range of animal fibres and can be destructive to clothing and other domestic textiles…
…a large moth of the silk moth family with eyespots on all four wings…
…a large white European moth with black spots, the larvae of which tunnel into trees and can cause damage…
…a brown woodland European moth with a caterpillar that has long legs and an upturned tail reminiscent of a lobster…
…a European moth of woods and gardens, which is typically white with black speckling. In industrial areas sooty brown forms predominate as a result of industrial melanism…
…a large moth with a caterpillar that spins a protective silken cocoon…
…a woodland moth whose adults and brightly coloured caterpillars both bear tufts of irritant hairs. The caterpillars can be a pest of trees, damaging fruit and stripping leaves…
…a silk moth that is sometimes kept in India and China, with caterpillars (tussore silkworms) that yield a strong but coarse brown silk…
…a small greyish moth which displays a pattern of diamonds along its back when the wings are folded. The caterpillar can be a pest of brassicas and other cultivated vegetables…
…with an irresistible attraction for someone or something…
…a European moth with long palps that extend in front of the head like a snout…
…a moth, typically yellow-brown in colour, with fast darting flight. The eggs are scattered in flight and the larvae live underground feeding on roots, where they can be a serious pest…
…a large brown moth of southern Australia, formerly eaten by Aborigines…
…a large brownish European moth, the caterpillar of which bears irritant hairs and is noted for drinking dew…
…a slender-bodied green moth, the colour of which tends to fade as the moth ages…
…a stout-bodied moth that has cream or white wings with black spots…
…a brownish European moth of woods and hedgerows, the caterpillars of which live communally in a silken tent on the food tree…
…a brownish moth, the hairy caterpillars of which have fleshy lappets along each side of the body…
…a small moth with typically green caterpillars that live inside rolled leaves and can be a serious pest of fruit and other trees…
…a day-flying tussock moth, the female of which is wingless and lays eggs on the cocoon from which she emerged…
…a very large North American silk moth with boldly marked reddish-brown wings…
…a day-flying moth with black and red wings, whose black and yellow caterpillars feed on groundsel and ragwort…
…a day-flying moth which has narrow mainly transparent wings and mimics a wasp or bee in appearance…
…a stout drab-coloured moth with tufts on the forewings which stick up while at rest, the caterpillars of which typically have fleshy growths on the back…
