hummingbird hawk moth

[Zigs]

no chance of capturing it with my camera so i borrowed a picture, but me and mrs becky have just watched one charging around our budddliea ( spelling )

 

http://www.ukmoths2.f9.co.uk/hires/Humming...dHawkMothSF.jpg

 

[ 16. September 2005, 06:00 PM: Message edited by: ziggy searchfield ]

[Zigs]

anyone else had any interesting moths visit in this welsh summer ?

 

would love to see an elephant hawk or deaths head

[Salar]

We saw one of those in Croatia on holiday this year. No big deal there but it was an amazing sight. The kids were absolutely convinced it was a real hummingbird. Nature is truly wonderful.

[Guest Julia]

I took an image of an elephant hawk moth ( http://www.treknature.com/gallery/Europe/U.../photo25162.htm ), but in caterpillar form.

I was in somerset (visiting Dad) and it was in his garden. Bl**dy huge!! Like a big chubby finger, amazing thing.

 

They are gorgeous as moths, but I've never been lucky enough to see one in the 'flesh'.

 

[ 16. September 2005, 06:25 PM: Message edited by: Finepix ]

[Zigs]

wow, nice pic, somerset is the place to be at last wondered why we were here

[Dan]

Hi Ziggy

 

I get green swallow tails, I'll try and get a pic for you, its been mothy heaven this year, but not so many butterflies

 

Dan

[Zigs]

i had green swallow tails once, diocalm cleared it up fine.

 

seriously though, are those the moths that hang around privet bushes, if so, i used to keep those as a kid

[Dan]

They hang around my light! I havent got any privet!! When I find one i'll ask him!

[Tony U]

I would have thought that more likely to be the Privet Hawkmoth Sphinx ligustri. Look at

www.atropos.info/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=53&password=&sort=1&cat=500&page=4

Humming bird Hawkmoths are Daytime fliers and Migrants to the UK rarely surviving over wintering north of the Alps.

 

[ 17. September 2005, 07:17 PM: Message edited by: Tony U ]

[Zigs]

nah, wernt that one tony u, i think we talking crossed moths here though, the one we saw yesterday was def a hbhm, dan & i are on about something that looks a bit like a small cabbage white, but comes out at nite to suck the blood of the living