Cindy Burkhardt had been watching a sphinx moth caterpillar in her garden for several days, but then it disappeared. Soon thereafter, she saw another trundling across a dirt road on Rabbit Mountain.

AT the beginning of the pupal stage of Sphinx ligustri, a lysis of larval tissues occurs. In winter, during diapause, the pupa is a bag full of blood containing a suspension of partially broken down ...

The sphinx moth has a name that sounds straight out of mythology, but it actually reflects three very real creatures. Its name draws from the sphinx, the hawk, and the hummingbird — each describing ...