Age is just a number, or is it? A new study by UTEP researchers shows that adult moths are more vulnerable to attack than ...

A white-lined sphinx moth in Stinson Beach in 2023. (Courtesy of David Ogilvie) And Bruce Beyaert was lucky enough to capture these shots while out in nature.

Also known as sphinx moths, these fascinating insects belong to the Sphingidae family, which has over 1,400 species worldwide. In North America, there are 115 types, including four species of ...

An adult female sphinx moth can lay up to 1,000 eggs, but if her population is neither shrinking nor expanding, the average number of eggs that survive to reproduce is two, one for herself and one for ...

In fact, sphinx moths have an expansive range, from Mexico, to the Southwestern and Western United States, even to Canada. They’re also natural pollinators on the night shift.

Sightings of the white-lined sphinx moth — Hyles lineata in scientific terms — have been reported “all over” Point Reyes National Seashore north of San Francisco.

Sphinx moths can fly up to 30 mph, and while hovering, they beat their wings 41 cycles per second (up and down), so fast that they make a buzzing sound.

About 1,450 species of sphinx moths have been described worldwide and more than two dozen are native to Colorado. The most common sphinx moth in Colorado is the white-lined sphinx, Hyles lineata. Both ...

It is the sphinx moth, also called the hawk moth or hummingbird moth. No matter what you call it, this is a large nectar-feeding insect that looks and acts just like ...

Sphinx moths have been declining for the last 50 years in New England. Biologists have been documenting this ongoing ominous trend, and trying to determine which factors are driving it.

Madagascan sphinx moth, Xanthopan morganii. (Image credit: Alamy) While Darwin predicted that the orchid would be pollinated by a long-tongued moth, when naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace described ...