Catawba County Parks rangers initially thought this flying creature was a hummingbird. They later determined it to be a species of moth that had never before been documented in North Carolina. DWAYNE ...

Readers have sent photographs of small critters hovering over flowers, as if they were sipping nectar like hummingbirds. But they’re not hummingbirds. Instead, they are insects variously called sphinx ...

The next time you’re near a patch of flowers and you think you see a hummingbird zip by, take a closer look! It just might be a hummingbird moth, a lesser-known but important pollinator. Sphinx moths ...

Size: 1-3 inches long, with a robust, spindle-shaped body and 3-5 inch wingspan. Hummingbird resemblance: The wings whirr rapidly as the moths hover over flowers. A proboscis as long as or longer than ...

Ranger Dwayne Martin specializes in hummingbirds, so he had reason to suspect that’s what he saw out the window of the Riverbend Park office near Conover on Thursday. Upon further inspection and some ...