Question: I have been seeing many caterpillars in my garden with a small horn on the tip of the body — they are black and yellow. What is this insect? Will it damage my garden? Answer: White-lined ...

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 ...

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 ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- It flies like a hummingbird but on closer inspection turns out to be a moth and there are a lot of them around now in Chicago, WBBM's John Cody reports. Biology Curator Douglas Taron ...

Deloraine’s Nadine Dietrich is no slouch behind the camera lens, as these stunning photos of a mysterious creature in her flower garden testify. She was out in her flower garden when it flew by. As we ...

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 ...

Jewel-toned wings gleam in the sun as this bauble of a bug flits from flower to flower. Fast and furious wingbeats, as many as seventy per second, produce an audible hum as it hovers, sipping nectar.

I was sitting at my campsite before dawn, enjoying a mug of coffee and watching the light accumulate in the eastern sky. My eastern horizon was formed partially by distant mesas and partially by a ...

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 ...

Sunday is the last day of National Moth Week. Moths are typically active at night and attracted to white or light-yellow flowers that readily reflect the glow of the moon. I am not a night owl, so ...