Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Darwin's hawkmoth (Xanthopan morgani praedicta) on flower, Andasibe-Mantadia National Park, Madagascar. Xanthopan morganii ...

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 ...

Bee to the blossom, moth to the flame; Each to his passion; what's in a name? — Helen Hunt Jackson, 19th century American writer, poet, and activist When it comes to moth names, have I got some ...

You know that old saying in journalism: Write about giant, weird bugs once, and your inbox forevermore will brim with photos of giant, weird bugs. It’s been two weeks since we covered the appearance ...

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 ...

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 Mountain.

The general characteristics of many sphinx moths are similar, but, because over 70 species occur in Texas and Oklahoma, variation is to be expected. A few of the more unusual and rare sphinx moths ...

Diane Winkler was hiking with her wife about a week ago at Point Reyes National Seashore when she spotted something that drew her up short. “Along the Abbotts Lagoon Trail, we got to a boardwalk where ...