The caterpillar of the Elephant Hawk-moth can adopt a scary, snake-like pose dilating its large eyespots as a defence response.

Hawk-moths get their name for their rapid, hawk-like flight. They all have narrow wings and are distinguished among all other moths by their rapid flying ability.

Grigsby was in his brother’s backyard south of Huntington Monday when he noticed a hummingbird hawk-moth circling a purple flower bush that appears similar to a petunia.

Hawk-moths are a typically large and powerful-flying group of moths, and the death’s-head hawk-moth is a scarce visitor to Britain - with only a few found every year in late summer and autumn.

The moths are thought to migrate thousands of miles between Europe and Africa in the autumn, flying by night.

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 ...

Spotting a Humming-bird Hawk-moth has long been considered a good omen – a small swarm of the orange and brown moths was famously seen flying over the Channel on D Day in 1944.