A Marin County park ranger was visiting her in-laws two weeks ago when she spotted a baby hummingbird hovering over a thistle in their backyard — or so she thought. When she stepped closer, she ...

If you have flowers around your house, then there’s a good chance you’ve seen this week’s featured creature, the white-lined sphinx moth. Like the snowberry clearwing that I featured in April 2022, ...

Have you noticed a large hummingbird-like moth in your garden these days? If so, it’s probably a white-lined sphinx moth, a common moth throughout North America. There are two broods, one in the ...

A few days ago in the garden, I spotted a small but very attractive insect. It was slim, around three quarters of an inch long and had a striking orange and black pattern that was hard to miss. I have ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service yesterday listed the bogbean buck moth as an endangered species. The one-inch, black and white moth lives in only a handful of peat wetlands called ‘fens’ in Oswego ...

Spreading its wings over the sandhills and scrub of peninsular Florida, a moth species with immaculately white wings has remained unnoticed by science until Mr. Terhune Dickel brought it to the ...

The California oak moth is a creature of extremes. Most of the time these small white insects fly completely under the radar. But every once in a while, they go on a breeding frenzy that is impossible ...