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Few places host more species than California’s Mojave Desert, a center of biodiversity for lepidoptera, the insect family encompassing roughly 180,000 known moth and butterfly species.

Since April, the USGS has asked residents in six states to send them the bodies of dead butterflies, moths, skippers, and other species from the Lepidoptera family of insects.

The Salient Aroma Hypothesis: host plant specialization is linked with plant volatile availability in Lepidoptera. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences , 2025; 292 (2042) DOI ...

Xing Huang, Si-Yan Ge, Jing-Hao Liu, Yong Wang, Xin-Yuan Liang, Hai-bin Yuan, Chemical composition and bioactivity of the essential oil from Artemisia lavandulaefolia (Asteraceae) on Plutella ...

In addition, the Ustyurtia zygophyllivora and Ustyurtia charynica species belong to a newly-described Lepidoptera genus and family. Discovering a new family of moths is comparable to researchers ...

Spodoptera spp. (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) are highly polyphagous pests that inflict serious damage to a wide spectrum of crops. The ability of Spodoptera spp. to thrive on diverse host plants is an ...

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 ...