Bee to the blossom, moth to the flame; Each to his passion; what's in a name? — Helen Hunt Jackson, 19th century American ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Have you noticed a large hummingbird-like moth in your garden these days? If so, it’s probably a white-lined sphinx moth, a common moth throughout North America. There are two broods, one in the ...

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 ...

I was sitting at my campsite before dawn, enjoying a mug of coffee and watching the light accumulate in the eastern sky. My eastern horizon was formed partially by distant mesas and partially by a ...