Readers have sent photographs of small critters hovering over flowers, as if they were sipping nectar like hummingbirds. But they’re not hummingbirds. Instead, they are insects variously called sphinx ...

Moth Week is a perfect time to talk about the insects' impact on the garden. A most detested caterpillar foe to our tomatoes, the tobacco hornworm (Manduca sexta), becomes a lovely hawk moth in its ...

The next time you’re near a patch of flowers and you think you see a hummingbird zip by, take a closer look! It just might be ...

While watering my rock garden, I inadvertently flushed an Achemon sphinx moth, Eumorpha achemon, which flew less than 20 feet to clutch onto a Stella D’Oro lily, where it stayed for the remainder of ...

Early fall brings an amazing insect to our flower gardens across the United States. It is the white-lined sphinx moth (Hyles lineata), also called the hawk moth or hummingbird moth. No matter what ...