Cindy Burkhardt had been watching a sphinx moth caterpillar in her garden for several days, but then it disappeared. Soon thereafter, she saw another trundling across a dirt road on Rabbit Mountain.

Q: Yesterday I noticed the leaves were gone on our Desert Willow. As I got close I saw the same type of worm/caterpillar that were found on tomato plants back in Pennsylvania. There were four or five ...

With the current summer heat and glaring midday sun, early morning and after sunset are the most salubrious times to be outside. The outdoor dinner hour is late and coincides with that of moths ...

Readers have sent photographs of small critters hovering over flowers, as if they were sipping nectar like hummingbirds. But they’re not hummingbirds. Instead, they are insects variously called sphinx ...

Q: A couple of evenings ago, we were sitting on the back porch with well-deserved glasses of iced tea. We were looking at the neighbor’s desert willow tree and saw hummingbirds flitting all around. It ...

Diane Winkler was hiking with her wife about a week ago at Point Reyes National Seashore when she spotted something that drew her up short. “Along the Abbotts Lagoon Trail, we got to a boardwalk where ...

Braulio Sanchez, a researcher and recent graduate of The University of Texas at El Paso, demonstrates caterpillar and adult moth replicas used in a study on moth predation. The study, recently ...