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 ...

Is it a hummingbird? Is it a butterfly? Lubbock A-J reader P.W. of Lubbock wondered about a strange creature hovering in flight around flowering Ajuga and thought perhaps it was some kind of ...

We have an old honeysuckle bush in our front yard twisting up a pipe 10 feet into the air. Planted by the previous owners, the orange-red flowers spreading out five feet around attract hummingbirds to ...

At any point in time a subject under inspection may be in a transitory state which soon passes into a form more representative of the creature’s primary existence, but very different from its starting ...

Late summer brings an amazing insect to our flower gardens across the United States. It is the sphinx moth, also called the hawk moth or hummingbird moth. No matter what you call it, this is a large ...

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 ...

Juvenile hummingbirds began leaving their nests about two weeks ago, so activity at my nectar feeders has surged. Where a month ago, I had four or five hummers coming to my feeders, that number has ...