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 ...

Readers have sent photographs of small critters hovering over flowers, as if they were sipping nectar like hummingbirds. But they’re not hummingbirds. Instead, they are insects variously called sphinx ...

If you walk through a field of fireweed, you might see spittle bugs, aphids and — if you are lucky — a hawk moth. They hover at flowers on their rather narrow wings, extending their “tongues” to ...

The world's most colorful moths can even rival the beauty of butterflies — but these marvelous designs are also crucial to ...

The sphinx moth has a name that sounds straight out of mythology, but it actually reflects three very real creatures. Its name draws from the sphinx, the hawk, and the hummingbird — each describing ...

Our region is justly noted for its varied laurel and rhododendron species. For most of us, year in and year out, the commonest and largest of these tends to be rosebay rhododendron. You don't have to ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- It flies like a hummingbird but on closer inspection turns out to be a moth and there are a lot of them around now in Chicago, WBBM's John Cody reports. Biology Curator Douglas Taron ...

“What is that giant thing on my tomato? And, “What happened to that tomato plant! All its leaves have been stripped away!” Every year, these questions arrive from horrified gardeners who call the ...

For decades scientists have thought that the giant sphinx moth was the only pollinator for the treasured ghost orchid, an Everglades air plant so in demand that it was almost harvested into extinction ...

It isn’t unusual for common names of animals to reflect characteristics of other unrelated groups or types within the animal kingdom. A striking example of this nomenclatural quirk applies to a large ...

In the Winter Edition of Envirotalk, Department Of Environment & Natural Resources Entomologist Claire Jessey highlights the Fig Sphinx moth, which is apparently a new resident of the island. In the ...