The hummingbird hawk-moth is partial to flowers with tube-shaped petals and uses its long, curled proboscis — an elongated ...

allowing optimal positioning of its proboscis within the heart of flowers. The convergence of traits exhibited by the ...

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 kingdom ... sexta belongs, whir their wings like hummingbirds as they flit between flowers, hovering to drink nectar.

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 ...