One such pest you'll want to keep an eye on is called a sphinx or hawk moth. This bug is a type of hummingbird moth that may be targeting your tomato plants. The winged insect hums like a ...

This hawk moth, the Sphinx coloradus, is one of the oldest hawk moth specimens in the National Museum of Natural History’s Lepidoptera collection. It was collected in 1895. Smithsonian Species ...

The Elephant Hawk Moth bursts out of the garden ... it manages to hide well during the day. The White-lined Sphinx Moth is often mistaken for a hummingbird as it hovers at flowers in the early ...

Only a few — the hummingbird hawk-moth and the white-lined sphinx — have the ability to hover for long periods of time. The moth’s similarities to hummingbirds are a perfect example of what ...

There is a bit of questioning around today's Bug(s) of the Week. Some say the moth, above, which was spotted by Penticton ...

Their large size—up to 6.5 inches for the cecropia moth—and the soft silky browns, greens, and oranges of their wings are unforgettable when they appear at a lighted window at night. Equally well ...

The White-lined Sphinx is an abundant North American pollinating moth found from coast to coast. These insects are closely associated with plants: as adults they drink nectar from flowers and the ...

Mac Stone (USA) unveils an unexpected behaviour by a giant sphinx moth. Mac spent much of his summer 15 metres up a tree, in the monsoon wind and rain, attempting to get the first-ever picture of a ...

The tobacco hawk moths’ visitation rate fell by 50 percent, and white-lined sphinx moths stopped visiting the flower entirely. To test their observations outside of the lab, the researchers ...