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

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.

The general characteristics of many sphinx moths are similar, but, because over 70 species occur in Texas and Oklahoma, variation is to be expected. A few of the more unusual and rare sphinx moths ...

It isn’t unusual for common names of animals to reflect characteristics of other unrelated groups or types within the animal kingdom. A striking example of this nomenclatural quirk applies to a large ...