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While I am aware that what I think is delightful, especially in the insect world, many people do not. Take my Madagascan hissing cockroaches – not everyone appreciates their rich glossy chestnut ...

DE PERE (WLUK) -- An usual sighting of a tiny flying insect may have some people looking twice. The hummingbird moth has been spotted feeding on wildflowers in the area, but the moth is often mistaken ...

Deep in the Amazon jungle, ecologist Leandro Moraes filmed a moth sucking the tears out of a sleeping antbird's eye. The delicately-performed nighttime feeding is a rarely seen event, wrote Moraes in ...

In an oddly poetic act, moths will on occasion drink the tears from the eyes of a sleeping bird. Sounds harmless, but this rare interaction is an unmistakably one-sided affair. Scientists actually ...

Floats like a hummingbird, sips like a bee. If my e-mail is any proof -- and we will assume that it is -- one of the most unusual insects in Ohio is having a very good summer. "This past weekend I was ...

A researcher captured rare video of a moth in the Amazon drinking tears from a sleeping bird’s eye, which the insect likely does to get nutrients like sodium and protein, according to a new report in ...

Moths are a group of insects in the Lepidoptera order and are often viewed as the plainer relatives of the more glamorous ...

While I cannot resist the pleasures of feeding my birds the whole year, I am aware that many people feed them only in the winter. Without a calendar, I could tell winter was here by the increasing ...

This is the season of the Sphinx or Hawk Moth, often mistaken for a hummingbird. It hovers over flowers, extending a very long proboscis to draw nectar from the plant. Its behavior is very bird-like.

On a research expedition in a forest along the Solimões River in central Amazonia, a researcher came across a scene that is part fairy-tale, part horror movie and quite simply peculiar. In the dead of ...