Myself and husband Dave spotted this in our garden in Cabra in August. Apparently it is a hummingbird hawk moth, and it may be a little bit rare. It’s not a great photo as it hardly stopped moving at ...

A video of a hawk moth caterpillar was recently uploaded to YouTube by wildlife photographer, David Weiller, and the soft little creature apparently has some of the best natural camouflage of all time ...

If you walk through a field of fireweed, you might see spittle bugs, aphids and — if you are lucky — a hawk moth. They hover at flowers on their rather narrow wings, extending their “tongues” to ...

Our region is justly noted for its varied laurel and rhododendron species. For most of us, year in and year out, the commonest and largest of these tends to be rosebay rhododendron. You don't have to ...

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 ...