Hawk moths are known for being some of the largest night fliers in the insect world. With wingspans of more than four inches, many species are big enough to comfortably fill the palm of your hand.

What initially appears to be a confusing video of a moth-hummingbird hybrid creature is actually a perfect excuse for us to explain an intriguing evolutionary phenomenon. The creature is the ...

Just as when we humans reach for objects, the hummingbird hawk moth uses its visual sense to place its long proboscis precisely on a flower to search for nectar, according to biologists. This is why ...

If you walk through a field of fireweed, you might see spittle bugs, aphids and — if you are lucky — a hawk moth. They hover at flowers on their rather narrow wings, extending their “tongues” to ...

The transparent wings of the pellucid hawk moth reflect most light, making them harder to see. Meet the pellucid hawk moth (Cephonodes hylas), a gorgeous cross between a moth, a cicada, and a ...

Hawk moths may be jamming bat sonar signals by rubbing their genitals. The behavior, reported in Biology Letters on 3 July, creates an ultrasonic noise that could be used to scare off an attacking bat ...

Flowers without scent produce fewer seeds, although they are visited as often by pollinators as are flowers that do emit a scent. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, ...

JENA, Germany, May 18 (UPI) --New research shows the hawk moth is attracted to the bouquet of the best-fitting flowers -- evidence of the power of the co-evolutionary process. Charles Darwin long ago ...

Hawk moths have a sweet solution to muscle damage. Manduca sexta moths dine solely on nectar, but the sugary liquid does more than fuel their bodies. The insects convert some of the sugars into ...

Just as when we humans reach for objects, the hummingbird hawk moth uses its visual sense to place its long proboscis precisely on a flower to search for nectar, according to a study by Konstanz ...

Manduca sexta hawk moth use their proboscis to smell the floral volatiles when they visit flowers, report scientists. They discovered the olfactory neurons involved in the perception of these ...