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.

AT the beginning of the pupal stage of Sphinx ligustri, a lysis of larval tissues occurs. In winter, during diapause, the pupa is a bag full of blood containing a suspension of partially broken down ...

Q: I saw lots of these bugs at the community garden this morning. They are massed on the open pods of a vine-like plant that has grown up the chain-link fence. The pods are about 3 inches long, ...