Late summer brings an amazing insect to our flower gardens across the United States. It is the sphinx moth, also called the hawk moth or hummingbird moth. No matter what you call it, this is a large ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

It's understandable that some people would mistake this creature for a hummingbird, at least at first glance. But it's not a bird at all; it's a bug — the clearwing sphinx moth, hawk moth or ...

Size: 1-3 inches long, with a robust, spindle-shaped body and 3-5 inch wingspan. Hummingbird resemblance: The wings whirr rapidly as the moths hover over flowers. A proboscis as long as or longer than ...

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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 ...