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 ...

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 ...

Ruby-throated hummingbirds typically begin to leave North Carolina in September, but they usually like to load up on food before heading out, Matadobra said. “You’ll see a large surge of them ...

Ruby-throated hummingbirds typically begin to leave North Carolina in September, but they usually like to load up on food before heading out, Matadobra said. “You’ll see a large surge of them ...

A hawk moth (Manduca sexta) feeds by hovering in front of flowers and slurping nectar through a proboscis, basically a body-length straw.To understand how these moths keep such a precise position in ...

North Carolina’s most common hummingbird — the Ruby-throated hummingbird — is slated to make an appearance in a few weeks, but if you spotted a hummingbird in the last few months, it may have been a ...

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.

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.

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 ...