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 ...

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 ...

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.

The sphinx moth is part of the Hawk Moth family that includes Hummingbird moths but what people are seeing in unusually large numbers around Chicago are White Line Sphinx moths.

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 ...

A sphinx moth would hover silently before a cluster of open flowers, probing with a proboscis that was as long as its body. Once they arrived at a shrub, they investigated many of the flowers, then ...

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.

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.