Sperm quality and sperm competition play important roles in determining the efficiency of genetic methods for suppression of lepidopteran populations. Herein we have examined competitiveness of mutant ...

Conopomorpha sinensis Bradley (Lepidoptera: Gracillariidae) is a destructive pest of litchi (Litchi chinensis Sonn.; Sapindales: Sapindaceae) and longan (Dimocarpus longan Lour.; Sapindales: ...

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) ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...