Take a stroll through a garden or restored patch of native plants, and you might catch a creature zipping skillfully among the blooms much like a tiny-but-fierce hummingbird on the hunt for nectar.

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 ...

I am aware that what I think is delightful, especially in the insect world, many people do not. However, hummingbird hawk moths are one insect most everyone gets truly excited to see. These moths are ...

Becker, V. O. and Solis, M. Alma. 1989. [Book review] "Sphingidae Mundi. Hawk Moths of the World. E. W. Classey, England. 226 pp. by Bernard D&#39Abrera." Journal of ...

Stasis and Flux among Saturniidae and Sphingidae (Lepidoptera) on Massachusetts' Offshore Islands and the Possible Role of Compsilura concinnata (Meigen) (Diptera: Tachinidae) as an Agent of Mainland ...