We were walking through an abandoned pasture planted in longleaf pine when my friend John Byrd, an environmental educator from Tennessee, pointed to a cluster of chest-high plants with thumb-size pods ...

Ornate bella moths (Utetheisa ornatrix) are dainty little insects that appear as flashes of pinkish-red as they flutter by. In the Lowcountry, they may stay active even on mild days in early winter.

Pyrrolizidine alkaloids are as bitter and toxic as they are hard to pronounce. They’re produced by several different types of plants and are among the leading causes of accidental death in cattle.

GAINESVILLE, Fla., June 15 (UPI) --If it weren't for the diminutive bella moth, many more natural habitats in Florida might be overrun by rattlebox plants, a poisonous invasive species. The small ...

We were walking through an abandoned pasture planted in longleaf pine when my friend John Byrd, an environmental educator from Tennessee, pointed to a cluster of chest-high plants with thumb-size pods ...

Researchers sequence the bella moth genome, which they used to pinpoint specific genes that may confer immunity to noxious alkaloids. Pyrrolizidine alkaloids are as bitter and toxic as they are hard ...