Ranger Dwayne Martin specializes in hummingbirds, so he had reason to suspect that’s what he saw out the window of the Riverbend Park office near Conover on Thursday. Upon further inspection and some ...

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 ...

Today, you meet several nice native plants, all in the evening primrose family, as well as the not-so-nice invasive yellow flag iris. You also meet the beneficial insects known as the charming sphinx ...

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.

Catawba County Parks rangers initially thought this flying creature was a hummingbird. They later determined it to be a species of moth that had never before been documented in North Carolina. DWAYNE ...