Caterpillars can be either very difficult to identify or very easy to identify. The easy ones are made easy in that they are impressively big, have amazing shapes and have either beautiful colours or ...

It's a mam-moth - a four-inch giant that put a family in a flap. Simon Owen, 40, found the bizarre specimen on the path outside his home in Murston, Kent, on Saturday (28/6) His partner Rebecca Yeo, ...

The Latin name of the hummingbird hawk moth is Macroglossum stellatarum. The moth is usually a resident of the Mediterranean. The insect flies around during the day and has a wingspan of two inches.

As the favoured signature of the serial killer in The Silence of the Lambs, the death's-head hawk moth is a harbinger of pestilence and death. But the benign sunshine and warm southerly winds of an ...

Animals all face the same challenges: finding enough to eat and surviving long enough to pass on their genes. While there are endless ways Nature has addressed these challenges, it sometimes arrives ...

Apparently the Humming-bird Hawk-moth is considered a good omen in Italy and Malta. A swarm was observed crossing the English Channel towards England on the day of the D-Day landings in 1944.