Darwin and fellow naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace predicted the existence of Wallace's sphinx moth from an orchid with an extremely long nectar tube. When you purchase through links on our site ...

In 1862, Darwin was able to posit that some insect ... The hawkmoth was originally thought to be a subspecies of the Morgan sphinx moth (Xanthopan morganii), but in 2021 it was confirmed as ...

A giant sphinx moth (Cocytius antaeus ... Most famously, in 1862, Darwin examined a Madagascar orchid now named after him (Darwin’s orchid, or Angraecum sesquipedale) that has a foot-long ...

The Morgan's sphinx has a proboscis that measures a foot in length ... its nectar so well-hidden would need a corresponding unusual pollinator. Darwin died in 1882, but the moth was not discovered ...