The beautiful purple emperor butterfly and a hummingbird hawk moth were spotted in the very warm temperatures in Hardwick Hall’s herb garden. The purple emperor is one of Britain's largest butterflies ...

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I FORWARD a sketch of the larva of a hawk moth found in the Khasi Hills, Assam, in the position it assumes when disturbed. its resemblance to a snake will be at once evident.

Insect pupae hiss like snakes for defense. A Kobe University team now reveals the mechanisms, opening the door to further studies involving predator reactions to defensive sounds. Just as you would ...

Becker, V. O. and Solis, M. Alma. 1989. [Book review] "Sphingidae Mundi. Hawk Moths of the World. E. W. Classey, England. 226 pp. by Bernard D&#39Abrera." Journal of ...

Beet moth was responsible for a sugar beet yield reduction of 25%, a drop in sugar content and a forced switch to earlier lifting at Troston Farms in Suffolk, where farm director Edward Vipond is now ...

This geranium produced leaves with red pigment while living outdoors on a sunny porch, but switched to light green leaves ...

Kobe University ecologist SUGIURA Shinji discovered that the pupae of the buff-leaf hawkmoth produce sounds by forcing air through holes in their abdomens, the first evidence of such a mechanism.

When animals cry, moths start licking their chops. The less glamorous relatives of butterflies have been known to use their long proboscis to sip the tears of everything from birds to reptiles to even ...

Okay, I’ve seen a lot of moths in my life but what the heck is THIS thing?!?! If I saw that flapping its fuzzy wings around my porch light on a warm August night, I’d think I was in a deep sleep ...

Revealing the most interesting or memorable behaviour of any of the multitude of smaller animals without backbones – whether on land, in the air, or in water. Minghui Yuan (China) carefully ...

Ukraine’s military has shared the first image of its newly-operationally-deployed MIM-23 Improved HAWK (or ‘I-HAWK’) air defense battery. The American medium-range air defense system, identifiable by ...