I found this moth one evening on a chair. The dictionary definition of a hawk moth is any of a family (Spinghidae) of moths with a thick, tapering body, slender wings, and a long feeding tube to suck the nectar of flowers.
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Hawk moth
I found this moth one evening on a chair. The dictionary definition of a hawk moth is any of a family (Spinghidae) of moths with a thick, tapering body, slender wings, and a long feeding tube to suck the nectar of flowers.
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Lovely moths and great captures as always! And as always, I learn something on your blog that I didn't know before!! Hope your week is going well!
Sylvia
I love your photos today. Out my window today is drab and grey. I will look forward to spring time and lots of green! Enjoy your day.
Well, I enlarged it to get a better look, because I have been wanting to see a hawk moth. I must say he is pretty ugly! I would be scared if one flew near me, thinking it to be a bat!!! Very interesting!!!
Great captures as always, Kanak. How does one tell the catterpillar of a moth from that of a butterfly?
Sylvia...thanks! Hope your week is good too!
Mildred, the creek, the trees of Nalley Valley come to mind. Looking forward to your Springtime photos!
Ginny...I know. Rather sinister, especially in the dark!!
Lotusleaf...I guessed...and then I looked up a whole lot of H.M. caterpillars on Google images. Found a great deal of matching ones!:-))
Lovely moths. We get a lot of mothquitoes over here.
All the best, Boonie
I am sure they will come back for you one day. Be patient ;-) Btw, good shots!
They are amazing. So are you.
You know how much I love your garden Kanak, it puts everyone to envy!!! The moths were simply beautiful and are those the larvae of the same moths? They tend to burrow underground to form their pupae so its quite hard to document unless you dig out the chrysalis and photograph them as they emerge in a bell jar (which is what I do) On the other hand, cheer up, the year's just started so I'm sure the hummingbird hawkmoths will be back anytime soon. Incidentally, has any hummingbirds ever visited your garden?
By the way, in response to a post you got above, its often rather difficult to tell which caterpillars are from butterflies or moths but the hawkmoth caterpillars always have a "tail" protruding from their rear end :)
Hi Boonie...so glad you stopped by!
Steph...thank you so much!
Sandy...so happy to read your words...thanks to all the bugs who visit me and making it possible for me to get their photos taken!:)
Cyren...looking at the pictures of the images that I post anyone might assume that I have enough space. But no, it's just that my area happens to be teeming with wildlife and I'm lucky to be able to photograph them within the four walls of our compound. And I also make it a point to check out the butterflies, lizards, and dragons at least once a day. No, we don't have hummingbirds here but we have the sunbirds. Only two kinds have visited my plants so far.
Thanks for telling me about the hawkmoth caterpillars...about the tail from the rear end. It'll be easier for me to ID them from now on.:)
I love your nature posts.
Krásné...
neat little friends, great shots of these guys!
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