According to Dr. Ellis, "Both male and female flying hawk, hummingbird, or sphinx moths have a famously long 1-inch (25 mm) proboscis or insect tongue that rests curled up like a garden hose under ...

A stationary Carolina sphinx moth (Manduca sexta) is the Cinderella of the animal ... hovering to drink nectar. M. sexta’s proboscis, longer than its 2-inch body, stays unfurled, a straw ready to ...

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 ...