The general characteristics of many sphinx moths are similar, but, because over 70 species occur in Texas and Oklahoma, variation is to be expected. A few of the more unusual and rare sphinx moths ...

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 ...

Cindy Burkhardt had been watching a sphinx moth caterpillar in her garden for several days, but then it disappeared. Soon thereafter, she saw another trundling across a dirt road on Rabbit Mountain.

Last week’s nature note was about two sphinx moths that fly and feed during the daytime. Fall is a good time to find the caterpillars of sphinx moths. The two that are described today are the tersa ...

No doubt about it, sphinx moths are extraordinary; extinction is forever, and it would be tragic to lose such a remarkable group of moths While watering my rock garden, I inadvertently flushed an ...

I was sitting at my campsite before dawn, enjoying a mug of coffee and watching the light accumulate in the eastern sky. My eastern horizon was formed partially by distant mesas and partially by a ...

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 ...