The small, whitish moth blends well with the white flowers of the yucca plant, where it spends most of its adult life. The moth pollinates the flowers, and in return, the yucca provides the moth ...

A new study sheds light on how extreme weather events impact phenological processes, specifically the flight period of butterflies and moths and the flowering time of plants, with implications for ...

Best buddies: The yucca moth is the only moth that pollinates the yucca plant, which in turn is the only plant host for the moth. Symbiotically speaking, they literally need each other.

Yucca’s white lily-like flowers grow on 3-to-8-foot-tall stems, and they’re pollinated by the white yucca moth. Apparently this aptly named moth depends entirely on the plant for its existence.

The yucca and the moth: How extreme weather impacts the timing of biological events Finely tuned dependencies among species are susceptible to disruption, and a study suggests that impacts from ...