It is the sphinx moth, also called the hawk moth or hummingbird moth. No matter what you call it, this is a large nectar-feeding insect that looks and acts just like ...

Early fall brings an amazing insect to our flower gardens across the United States. It is the white-lined sphinx moth (Hyles lineata), also called the hawk moth or hummingbird moth. No matter what ...

An adult female sphinx moth can lay up to 1,000 eggs, but if her population is neither shrinking nor expanding, the average number of eggs that survive to reproduce is two, one for herself and one for ...

Madagascan sphinx moth, Xanthopan morganii. (Image credit: Alamy) While Darwin predicted that the orchid would be pollinated by a long-tongued moth, when naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace described ...

Cindy Burkhardt had been watching a sphinx moth caterpillar in her garden for several days, but then it disappeared. Soon thereafter, she saw another trundling across a dirt road on Rabbit ...

A white-lined sphinx moth in Stinson Beach in 2023. (Courtesy of David Ogilvie) And Bruce Beyaert was lucky enough to capture these shots while out in nature.

Northland Nature: Hummingbird moth visits lilacs Retired teacher Larry Weber, of Barnum, is the author of “Butterflies of the North Woods" and “Spiders of the North Woods," among other books.

University of New Brunswick biodiversity and wildlife professor Graham Forbes found a tersa sphinx moth in his driveway the day after post-tropical storm Fiona hit the Maritimes.

The sphinx moth is one of 1,000 species in the Family Sphingidae (hence the proper common name sphinx), characterized by streamlined wings and heavy bodies. There are more than 100 distinct types ...

The Moth Sphinx Shellhole, Boksburg, has recently moved from Church Street to its new home on the premises of the Anglican Parish Church on 150 Commissioner Street, near Hospital Road.

Sightings of the white-lined sphinx moth — Hyles lineata in scientific terms — have been reported "all over" Point Reyes National Seashore north of San Francisco.