North Carolina has a number of species of large moths, which can be the size of birds, Bill Reynolds of the N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences said. North Carolina has a number of species of large moths, ...
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The name clearwing comes from the fact that there are sections of the moth’s wing that are transparent, like a dragonfly. The hummingbird part comes from the moth’s flight among flowers. / PHOTO BY ...
Just as humans rely on their eyes to make precise movements with their hands, hummingbird hawk-moths use continuous visual feedback to precisely position their proboscis in the center of flowers. When ...
A recent study has explored how changes in moth abundance affect insect-eating birds in Finland. The findings, published in ...
A moth was spotted drinking a sleeping bird’s tears in the Amazon jungle in Brazil, the first time this behavior was reported in the country and only the third known case worldwide. Moths and ...
On a research expedition in a forest along the Solimões River in central Amazonia, a researcher came across a scene that is part fairy-tale, part horror movie and quite simply peculiar. In the dead of ...
In an oddly poetic act, moths will on occasion drink the tears from the eyes of a sleeping bird. Sounds harmless, but this rare interaction is an unmistakably one-sided affair. Scientists actually ...
A Marin County park ranger was visiting her in-laws two weeks ago when she spotted a baby hummingbird hovering over a thistle in their backyard — or so she thought. When she stepped closer, she ...
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