When a hawk moth drinks from a flower, its proboscis picks up pollen. That pollen can then be spread to flowers farther than 18 miles away as the moth travels along its feeding route. At the ...

Unlike the hummingbird, however, the hummingbird hawk moth doesn’t feed from a beak. Instead it relies on an appendage called a proboscis — measuring nearly the entire length of its body ...

In Huntingdonshire gardens, it likes to feed on many different flowers, particularly Honeysuckle, Red Valerian, and Verbena bonariensis (sometimes called Purple Top). As it hovers, the bright orange ...

There is a bit of questioning around today's Bug(s) of the Week. Some say the moth, above, which was spotted by Penticton ...

Here we show that the hawkmoth Manduca sexta exhibits an innate preference for volatiles of those Nicotiana flowers, which match the length of the moth’s proboscis. This preference becomes ...

After observing a specimen, Charles Darwin predicted the existence of a moth with a proboscis long enough to reach that nectar. Sure enough, decades later the giant hawk moth of Madagascar was ...

Their large size—up to 6.5 inches for the cecropia moth—and the soft silky browns, greens, and oranges of their wings are unforgettable when they appear at a lighted window at night. Equally well ...