Jul. 20—Look close, that hummingbird you thought you just saw flitting around your flowers or plants may not be a hummingbird. In fact, it may not be a bird at all. You may be looking at one of the ...

If you see a strange-looking hummingbird at a Bay Area park this summer, it might not be a bird at all. Heavy winter rainfall caused a population boom for a moth called the white-lined sphinx. Many ...

What initially appears to be a confusing video of a moth-hummingbird hybrid creature is actually a perfect excuse for us to explain an intriguing evolutionary phenomenon. The creature is the ...

Stunning photos show a rarely-seen hummingbird hawk-moth captured in full flight, beating its wings at 80 times a second while feeding from a flower. Wildlife photographer Andrew Fusek Peters, 58, ...

DE PERE (WLUK) -- An usual sighting of a tiny flying insect may have some people looking twice. The hummingbird moth has been spotted feeding on wildflowers in the area, but the moth is often mistaken ...

A viewer sent in this rather unique photo Wednesday, commenting: “I cut lilacs … today and put the vase on the hood of my car until I was ready to leave. My son informed me not to take the bug with us ...

There are incontrovertible absolutes in nature, and many take comfort in the predictability and order that can be found in the natural world. Ah, but Mother Nature must have a sense of humor for ...

If you see something that looks like a hummingbird in your Island garden this summer but has clear wings and is slightly smaller, it's likely a hummingbird moth says ...

DEAR JOAN: Saturday I was buzzed by what I thought was a hummingbird, but I got a closer look when I saw it hovering near my jasmine vine and it looked like a large moth. Marvelous! Are they common in ...

DEAR MADELYN: Your marvelous moth is most likely a hummingbird moth, which begins life as a tomato hornworm, which gardeners don’t find so marvelous. There are several types of hummingbird moths, and ...

Last week, Boulder was beset by apocalyptic rain and massive flooding. Where I live, a bit outside of the flood zone, streets were still impassable and basements were metamorphosing into bathtubs all ...