Tennessee is a beautiful, pastoral state full of sweeping grasslands, thick forests, and lush rivers. It’s also home to a ...

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 ...

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.

Like hummingbirds, sphinx moths hover over flowers with whirring wings, they fly sideways and backward, and they zip through the air at speeds reaching 33 mph. Sphinx moths also sip flower nectar ...

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 ...

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.

Some, like sphinx moths, remain abundant. Many others are probably being pushed to the brink by development, land-use changes, pesticides and pollution, and rising temperatures.

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 ...