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 ...

Leaving hummingbirds behind, we narrow the similarities and differences of butterflies and moths. They are both in the Order Lepidoptera, which encompasses about 180,000 species of flying, scaly ...

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.

Hummingbird moths, also known as hummingbird hawk-moths, are pretty cool. They are sort of brightly colored, as moths go, they can hover, live on nectar and are useful pollinators.

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.