Alias: Apple-and-thorn skeletonizer. This is a brown moth with a mosaic on its back wings of various shades of red, grey, black and yellow. Adult moths overwinter in the tree bark in natural hollows.

Scientific American is part of Springer Nature, which owns or has commercial relations with thousands of scientific publications (many of them can be found at www ...

While taking a break on a country bike ride, I saw this unfortunate insect (above) impaled on the thorn of a low bush. We’d had strong winds in the days beforehand and I can only assume that the ...