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.

Look, it’s a bird, it’s a plane, no it’s Supermoth!” Late summer brings an amazing insect to our flower gardens across the United States. It is the sphinx moth, also called the ...

A stationary Carolina sphinx moth (Manduca sexta) is the Cinderella of the animal ... hovering to drink nectar. M. sexta’s proboscis, longer than its 2-inch body, stays unfurled, a straw ready to ...

It is the white-lined sphinx moth (Hyles lineata), also called the hawk moth or hummingbird moth ... they unfurl their long straw-like mouth part called a proboscis. They expertly insert the ...