“The life of a collector is obsession and passion,” said Maximus Gallery curator Linda Miller. The Collectors: A Life in Lepidoptera traces that passion for collecting and studying butterflies and ...

Butterflies are some of the most beautiful insects. There are also many beautiful moths. They have three main body regions ...

It’s a little after 6:30 on a brisk July morning in a stone hut high in the Italian Alps. A gently hissing wood fire is leaking some warmth out of a brick oven. Gathered near it, around a big wooden ...

Lepidoptera are key pests that require control measures to avoid significant losses in many cropping systems worldwide. Failure to control key species can result in significant losses that impact the ...

Butterflies and moths, the Lepidoptera, are among the most beautiful of insects, familiar to almost everyone through thousands of different species from all around the world. But how they evolved has ...

The Museum’s Lepidoptera collection is one of the oldest, largest and certainly the most type rich. The collection contains 12.5 million pinned specimens and one million papered specimens housed in 80 ...

LepIndex is essentially a computerised and updated version of the Natural History Museum's (NHM) card index archive to the scientific names of the living and fossil butterflies and moths (Lepidoptera) ...