A viewer sent in this rather unique photo Wednesday, commenting: “I cut lilacs … today and put the vase on the hood of my car until I was ready to leave. My son informed me not to take the bug with us ...

Question: I have been seeing many caterpillars in my garden with a small horn on the tip of the body — they are black and yellow. What is this insect? Will it damage my garden? Answer: White-lined ...

A friend of mine was looking at their butterfly bush this week and noticed a rather unusual insect flying slowly around the blooms. At first glance it appeared to be a large bumble bee or maybe a ...

Gardeners tend to be smitten with hummingbirds. They plant hummingbird-friendly plants such as salvia, trumpet creeper and cardinal flower in hope of luring the feathered helicopters. After all, ...

Q: Since June, we've had three pair of hummingbird moths in our garden. One even landed on my hand. They loved our monarda, which is done blooming. Our summer phlox that they switched to is now ...

Q: Last week, I had a new bug in our yard where we have many flowers along the edge of our lawn that looked like a giant bee or a small hummingbird but without a bill. My uncle, who has gardened for ...

At any point in time a subject under inspection may be in a transitory state which soon passes into a form more representative of the creature’s primary existence, but very different from its starting ...

Anyone who has spent June in the Northland is very familiar with the six-legged critters here with us. These insects seem to be everywhere and anytime of the day. It is easy to note the abundance of ...

UK gardens could soon be invaded by an influx of moths that look remarkably like hummingbirds, due to warmer autumns and winters. The striking hummingbird hawk-moth is a native of North Africa and ...

Juvenile hummingbirds began leaving their nests about two weeks ago, so activity at my nectar feeders has surged. Where a month ago, I had four or five hummers coming to my feeders, that number has ...