With help from the community, an invasive caterpillar was captured on Kauaʻi.

If you walk through a field of fireweed, you might see spittle bugs, aphids and — if you are lucky — a hawk moth. They hover at flowers on their rather narrow wings, extending their “tongues” to ...

An Oleander Hawk Moth clings to a bird of paradise leaf recently in Kihei. The non-native species is believed to have arrived to Hawaii in the 1970s. Adult Oleander Hawk Moths have a wingspan of ...

One summer, I found a large moth concealed in the folds of clothes left hanging to dry overnight on the clothesline in our back garden. Mottled brown with yellow and orange markings, it was an ...

The artist Maria Sibylla Merian was one of the most important entomologists of the 17th century. Her studies of caterpillars, which she reared herself, contributed to knowledge of the life cycles of ...

Aug. 30 (UPI) --Animal rescuers in Wales said an officer who rushed to the scene of a reported snake sighting was surprised and relieved to instead find an elephant hawk-moth caterpillar. The RSPCA ...