Hawk moths are the underdog pollinators that sustain countless populations of plants around the world. Abigail Eisenstadt The National Museum of Natural History’s Lepidoptera collection holds up to ...

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 ...

According to a study by the University of Nebraska, hawk moths can be found in all parts of the world except Greenland. Some areas only host these moths for part of the year because many species make ...

I FORWARD a sketch of the larva of a hawk moth found in the Khasi Hills, Assam, in the position it assumes when disturbed. its resemblance to a snake will be at once evident.

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 ...

IN experiments on phototaxis in caterpillars, great variability is often found among the reactions to the same conditions of different individuals, or of the same individual at different times. No ...

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 ...

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, ...