A pink- and caramel-colored elephant hawk-moth sitting on a leaf. The content of a small box on his roof terrace in central London has taught ecologist Tim Blackburn more about the natural world than ...

Aug. 30 (UPI) --Animal rescuers in Wales said an officer who rushed to the scene of a reported snake sighting was surprised and relieved to instead find an elephant hawk-moth caterpillar. The RSPCA ...

The Netted Carpet moth has a large habitat of Touch-me-not balsam at the Footprint, so we hope to see lots of these, as well as some other beautiful species, such as the Elephant Hawk moth, Ermine and ...

Standardized monitoring has revealed that the total number of moths has declined steadily by one third over the last 50 years (1968–2017). Pictured are two of the 2,500 moth species found in the UK ...

Just as when we humans reach for objects, the hummingbird hawk moth uses its visual sense to place its long proboscis precisely on a flower to search for nectar, according to biologists. This is why ...

With colors ranging from candy pinks to golds and sometimes possessing wingspans as big as a bird's, moths are a fascinating group. Ecologist Tim Blackburn tells Live Science about the incredible, ...