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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.

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

Taubenschwänzchen, Hummingbird Hawkmoth (Macroglossum Stellatarum).

Macroglossum stellatarum flying over the flower.

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

Hummingbird Hawk Moth (Macroglossum stellatarum) Fly Over Flower in Garden

Little butterfly Macroglossum stellatarum fly over flower in garden

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

A Hummingbird moth samples a flower with its long nose. This insect beats its wings very quickly, hence the name hummingbird moth.

Hummingbird hawkmoth (Macroglossum stellatarum) flying on Abelia grandiflora compacta

$The hummingbird hawk-moth (Macroglossum stellatarum) is a species of hawk moth found across temperate regions of Eurasia. The species is named for its similarity to hummingbirds, as they feed on the nectar of tube-shaped flowers using their long proboscis while hovering in the air; this resemblance is an example of convergent evolution. \nLife cycle:\nTwo or more broods are produced each year. The adult may be encountered at any time of the year, especially in the south of the range, where there may be three or four broods. It overwinters as an adult in a crevice among rocks, trees, and buildings. On very warm days it may emerge to feed in mid-winter. Unlike other moths, they have no sexual dimorphism in the size of their antennal lobes.\nHabitat and host plants:\nHummingbird hawk-moths can be easily seen in gardens, parks, meadows, bushes, and woodland edge, where the preferred food plants grow (honeysuckle, red valerian and many others). \nTheir larvae usually feed on bedstraws or madders (Rubia) but have been recorded on other Rubiaceae and Centranthus, Stellaria, and Epilobium. \nAdults are particularly fond of nectar-rich flowers with a long and narrow calyx, since they can then take advantage of their long proboscis and avoid competition from other insects. Flowers with longer tubes typically present the feeding animal a higher nectar reward. Proboscis length is thought to have been evolutionarily impacted by the length of flower feeding tubes.] Examples of such plants include Centranthus, Jasminum, Buddleia, Nicotiana, Primula, Viola, Syringa, Verbena, Echium, Phlox, and Stachys. \nDistribution:\nThe hummingbird hawk-moth is distributed throughout the northern Old World from Portugal to Japan, but it breeds mainly in warmer climates (southern Europe, North Africa, and points east). Three generations are produced in a year in Spain. \n\nThis Picture is made during a Vacation in Bulgaria in May 2018.$

Flying Hawk moth (Sphingidae) sucking from stamens of a flower, Picture from the North of Greece.

Hummingbird hawk moth - Macroglossum stellatarum - sucks nectar from pink flower with its proboscis

One flying flapping hummingbird hawk moth with long proboscis drinking at lavender flower outdoors in garden, side view, macro

a hummingbird hawkmoth at a yellow flower

Hummingbird Hawk-moth (Macroglossum stellatarum) is eating nectar from pink valerian flower like a hummingbird.

A White-Lined Sphinx moth, also known as a Hummingbird moth, feeding from a Lantana plant during autumn, in the Sonoran Desert Region of Arizona.

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

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

A hummingbird hawk-moth in action over a bright orange flower.

Hovering next to lobelia flowers, a wild white-lined sphinx moth drinks up nectar with his long proboscis in Chatfield State Park Littleton, Colorado.

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