Honeysuckle is putting on a great display at present. The native climbing shrub scrambles with ease in many wayside hedgerows sporting its distinctive, heavily-scented, yellow and white flowers tinged ...

Elephant Hawk Moth Credit: Getty Images It’s pink, green, and surprisingly fast. The Elephant Hawk Moth bursts out of the garden, almost always unexpectedly. It shows off bright magenta and ...

If butterflies are the beauty queens of the insect world, moths are their drab and pesky cousins—or so you may have thought. It’s true that most moths are nocturnal, so you’re more likely to see them ...

Caterpillars can be either very difficult to identify or very easy to identify. The easy ones are made easy in that they are impressively big, have amazing shapes and have either beautiful colours or ...

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 ...

Castle Howard, North Yorkshire: From the shimmer of a burnished brass to the swarthy eyed hawk-moth, each wondrous creature draws gasps of delight It’s a bright clear morning at Castle Howard when we ...