A black witch moth was spotted June 28, 2019, by Eric Allix Rogers near his South Shore home. Then as the moth sat on the wooden door, Rogers captured photos of the moth before tweeting a photo ...

A black witch! We’re at a moth-centric event 2½ hours away, and one of the rarest moths that could appear in Ohio turns up only 10 minutes from our Columbus homes.

Black witch moths are brown to tan with alternating, lighter, wavy lines across their mid-wings and short, black, wavy lines on the posterior wing margins. Small patches of iridescent blue are ...

Black Witch Moths are native to South and Central America and have a wing span that can measure up to 7 inches. “This is a species that tends to wander a lot,” Taron said.

It was a black witch moth, the largest in North America, which can measure 6 inches wide. Its dingy brown wings are topped by wavy black lines. Big spots near the edge of each forewing look as ...

Moth diversity peaks in the hot and humid months of summer and we are far past that now. However, this past Sunday I got an October surprise when my friend Bronson Ratcliff called just before sunset.

A Chicago man found a giant black witch moth on the door to his apartment building on Friday. The moth, which has a seven inch wingspan, is native to Central and South America and rarely seen so ...

Illustration by Neve O'Brien One sunny afternoon in their Miamian second-floor apartment, a big black moth paid Nathalie and her dad a visit. Nathalie thought the moth was beautiful. She said to her ...

'Bat moths' and owlets However, some moths still have fearsome-sounding names and two of the more conspicuous species occurring in our region are the black witch moth and the rabbitbush hooded owlet ...