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Hummingbird hawk-moth - Macroglossum stellatarum - sucks nectar with its proboscis from a blossom of the common sage - Salvia officinalis

Hummingbird hawk-moth feeding on vibrant pink zinnia in natural habitat.

The hummingbird hawk-moth (Macroglossum stellatarum) is a moth of the Sphingidae family. Its static flight, very fast and rapid in movement, recalls the flight of a Hummingbird, also for its characteristic brush-tipped proboscis, very long compared to the size of the insect.

Taubenschwänzchen, Hummingbird Hawkmoth (Macroglossum Stellatarum).

Macroglossum stellatarum flying over the flower.

Hummingbird hawk moth feeding on flower, Macroglossum stellatarum, Iglesias, South Sardinia, Italy. Mediterranean.

Hummingbird clearwing moth at purple vervain, extending its proboscis into a blossom. Taken in a Connecticut garden, summer.

Butterfly like Hummingbird, Northern Hummingbird. hummingbird hawkmoth (Macroglossum stellatarum) above blue flowers in a high column of inflorescence (spongiform)

A hummingbird hawk-moth getting a snack from a butterfly bush.

hummingbird hawk-moth over a flower (Macroglossum stellatarum)

$The hummingbird hawk-moth (Macroglossum stellatarum) is a species of hawk moth found across temperate regions of Eurasia. The species is named for its similarity to hummingbirds, as they feed on the nectar of tube-shaped flowers using their long proboscis while hovering in the air; this resemblance is an example of convergent evolution. \nLife cycle:\nTwo or more broods are produced each year. The adult may be encountered at any time of the year, especially in the south of the range, where there may be three or four broods. It overwinters as an adult in a crevice among rocks, trees, and buildings. On very warm days it may emerge to feed in mid-winter. Unlike other moths, they have no sexual dimorphism in the size of their antennal lobes.\nHabitat and host plants:\nHummingbird hawk-moths can be easily seen in gardens, parks, meadows, bushes, and woodland edge, where the preferred food plants grow (honeysuckle, red valerian and many others). \nTheir larvae usually feed on bedstraws or madders (Rubia) but have been recorded on other Rubiaceae and Centranthus, Stellaria, and Epilobium. \nAdults are particularly fond of nectar-rich flowers with a long and narrow calyx, since they can then take advantage of their long proboscis and avoid competition from other insects. Flowers with longer tubes typically present the feeding animal a higher nectar reward. Proboscis length is thought to have been evolutionarily impacted by the length of flower feeding tubes.] Examples of such plants include Centranthus, Jasminum, Buddleia, Nicotiana, Primula, Viola, Syringa, Verbena, Echium, Phlox, and Stachys. \nDistribution:\nThe hummingbird hawk-moth is distributed throughout the northern Old World from Portugal to Japan, but it breeds mainly in warmer climates (southern Europe, North Africa, and points east). Three generations are produced in a year in Spain. \n\nThis Species can be seen in different Habitats (inc. Gardens) in the Netherlands in Summer Season.$

Hummingbird Hawk-moth (Macroglossum stellatarum) is eating nectar from red valerian flower with vibrant pink color flowers like a hummingbird. The Moro Sphinx or Sphinx Hummingbird is an insect belonging to the order Lepidoptera. It is a small Sphingidae. The Moro sphinx has a very long proboscis for foraging flowers hovering at how hummingbirds. It usually gathers nectar from flowers that other insects can not reach. Photography in selective focus of the insect flying during pollination process on red valerian flower plant in nature, during summer, spring season.

Macroglossum stellatarum collects flower nectar

Hummingbird hawk-moth - Macroglossum stellatarum - sucks nectar with its proboscis from a blossom of Carthusian pink blossom - Dianthus carthusianorum

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$The insect is cephonodes hylas, also known as hummingbird hawk-moth, coffee bee hawk-moth, pellucid hawk moth, coffee clear wing, hovering and sucking nectar from salvia/sage flowers, using proboscis.\nCephonodes hylas, with a size of 5-7 cm, is a moth of the family Sphingidae. A widely distributed moth, it is found in the Near and Middle East, Africa, India, Japan, Southeast Asia, Australia and some others. It has transparent wings and stout body like a bumble bee.$

hummingbird hawk-moth feeding on a butterfly bush on blurred background. Selective focus.

One flying hummingbird hawk moth belonging to group of butterfly moth flying at lavender flower outdoors in garden, macrophoto

A humming-bird hawkmoth suck nectar from yellow cosmos.

The small blue flowers and it’s big pollinater

Pigeon Tails in the Hoverflig on Bartblume,Eifel,Germany

Pigeon tail, Macroglossum, stellatarum, one of the almost exotic insects, is the pigeon tail or hummingbird warmer, which reminds of hummingbirds with its whirring flight and comes to us from the south in summer.

Hummingbird hawkmoth (Macroglossum stellatarum) flying on Abelia grandiflora compacta

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