Rangers at Riverbend Park near Conover in Catawba County North Carolina discover what looked like a hummingbird was actually an Aellopos ‘Titan Sphinx.’ The giant moth was documented in NC for ...

Hummingbird moth. A friend of mine was ... Darrell Blackwelder is the retired horticulture agent with the North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service in Rowan County. Contact him at deblackw@ncsu ...

It is the hummingbird's bedtime, but there is just enough light left before total darkness when you see these sleep-deprived ...

Besides sporting brighter colors and patterns than the neutral tones of humble moths that flock to porchlights, hummingbird ...

Prairie Ridge Ecostation, the outdoor learning lab of the N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences, has some activities lined up in the next couple of weeks. Prairie Ridge is in west Raleigh, not far from ...

The hummingbird hawk-moth is partial to flowers with tube-shaped petals and uses its long, curled proboscis — an elongated sucking mouthpart — to extract nectar from the flower's center.

To say hummingbird moths are fleet of wing would be an understatement. They seldom tarry long, and at full whirl can beat their wings a remarkable 85 times a second.

Rangers at Riverbend Park near Conover in Catawba County North Carolina discover what looked like a hummingbird was actually an Aellopos ‘Titan Sphinx.’ The giant moth was documented in NC for ...