The other evening I was standing in my perennial flower garden surrounded by flowers and noticed a sphinx moth going from flower to flower. In particular this was a white-lined sphinx moth ...

The white-lined sphinx moth (Hyles lineata) is a hummingbird moth that gets its name from the way its caterpillar lifts its front legs and tucks its head when at rest, resembling the Great Sphinx ...

white-lined sphinx, slender clearwing, and hummingbird clearwing." The two most well-known moths are the tomato hornworm and the tobacco hornworm, but they have a bad reputation as caterpillars.

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 ...