No year is quite like another when it comes to insect populations, according to a prominent Wisconsin entomologist.
Phil Pellitteri, the director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Insect Diagnostic Lab, said that many have heard about the low levels of monarchs and other butterflies this year. But, a cousin of the insect is now showing up in large numbers in Wisconsin: the whitelined sphinx moth.
Sphinx moths are sometimes mistaken for hummingbirds because of their large size, the way that they hover over flowers and because they are active during the day instead of at night.
But unlike...
