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.

Darwin's hawkmoth (Xanthopan morgani praedicta) on flower, Andasibe-Mantadia National Park, Madagascar. Xanthopan morganii praedicta, Madagascan sphinx moth. While Darwin predicted that the orchid ...

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 ...

While watering my rock garden, I inadvertently flushed an Achemon sphinx moth, Eumorpha achemon, which flew less than 20 feet to clutch onto a Stella D’Oro lily, where it stayed for the remainder of ...

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 ...

No doubt about it, sphinx moths are extraordinary; extinction is forever, and it would be tragic to lose such a remarkable group of moths While watering my rock garden, I inadvertently flushed an ...

Is it a hummingbird? Is it a butterfly? Lubbock A-J reader P.W. of Lubbock wondered about a strange creature hovering in flight around flowering Ajuga and thought perhaps it was some kind of ...

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 ...

Last week’s nature note was about two sphinx moths that fly and feed during the daytime. Fall is a good time to find the caterpillars of sphinx moths. The two that are described today are the tersa ...

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 ...

When the heady scent of ginger lilies and moonflowers permeates the autumn air at dusk, look for white-lined sphinx moths close at hand. Drawn by the sweet perfume in these white flowers that brighten ...

While watering my rock garden, I inadvertently flushed an Achemon sphinx moth, Eumorpha achemon, which flew less than 20 feet to clutch onto a Stella D’Oro lily, where it stayed for the remainder of ...