The White-lined Sphinx Moth is the most common and widespread ... They also have a large pink patch on their hindwing (they have four wings, two on each side). Usually, you can’t see the pink ...

It’s been two weeks since we covered the appearance of white-lined sphinx moths in the Bay Area, which are out in unusual abundance this year. That’s given readers plenty of time to hustle up ...

Like the snowberry clearwing that I featured in April 2022, the white-lined sphinx is a “hummingbird ... mostly hidden unless the moth is in flight, has a large pink stripe with black coloring ...

When seen up close, the patterning is quite pretty, with distinctive white-on-brown striping on the forewing and a patch of pink on the ... of white-lined sphinx moths has exploded these past ...

These were Hyles lineata, white-lined sphinx moths, which are the most common sphinx ... white and salmon or pink. You may have seen hawkmoths but mistaken them for hummingbirds.

Its purple-and-brown coloring was hair, not plumage. It was Alena Kopshever’s first time encountering a white-lined sphinx moth. Since then, she said sightings of the insects — Hyles lineata ...

On the dorsal side, adult moths have soft brown tinged with pink and dark brown triangular ... The most common sphinx moth in Colorado is the white-lined sphinx, Hyles lineata.

There are four types of hummingbird moths in North America: hummingbird clearwing moths, white-lined sphinx moths, snowberry ...

The white-lined sphinx moth is common in the Houston area ... one set of forewings with a buffy band and one set of hindwings with a pink band trimmed in white. It’s one of a few diurnal ...

Four of the most widespread sphinx moths in our region are the white-lined sphinx, vine sphinx, five-spotted hawkmoth and pink-spotted hawkmoth. The more common sphinx moths are possibly the ...