Hawk moths are the underdog pollinators that sustain countless populations of plants around the world. Abigail Eisenstadt The National Museum of Natural History’s Lepidoptera collection holds up to ...
A RARE moth that masquerades as a bee has been spotted in Dorset. This photograph of a narrow-bordered bee hawk-moth was taken by Helen Moore of the Echo's Camera Club. This moth was once widely ...
PORTLAND, ORE. — A great flower shape for a moth trying to get a drink in the dark turns out to be awful from the plant’s point of view. Offering hawk moths (Manduca sexta) a range of 3-D printed ...
JENA, Germany, May 18 (UPI) --New research shows the hawk moth is attracted to the bouquet of the best-fitting flowers -- evidence of the power of the co-evolutionary process. Charles Darwin long ago ...
Hawk moths have a sweet solution to muscle damage. Manduca sexta moths dine solely on nectar, but the sugary liquid does more than fuel their bodies. The insects convert some of the sugars into ...
One summer, I found a large moth concealed in the folds of clothes left hanging to dry overnight on the clothesline in our back garden. Mottled brown with yellow and orange markings, it was an ...
A five-spotted hawk moth squirming its way out of its hard cocoon casing has gone viral on Reddit. The video of the fully-formed moth escaping from its cocoon has amassed over 49,000 upvotes. Posted ...
Scientists have demonstrated that hawk moths acquired the highest energy gain when they visited flowers that matched the length of their proboscis. The moths were supported in their choice of the best ...
Max Planck researchers show that Manduca sexta recognizes the scent of flowers matching its proboscis and thereby optimizes energy gain Charles Darwin, the founder of the theory of evolution, was an ...
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